Patricia Pittman, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emeritus, Department of Health Policy and Management
Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
Patricia (Polly) Pittman, PhD, FAAN, is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University. She is the former director of the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity and the Health Workforce Policy Research Center. Dr. Pittman’s research has historically focused on health workforce policy and workforce innovations in the context of system change. She has provided research support for the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing and, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, led a series of studies examining the recruitment of foreign-educated health professionals to the U.S.