To improve health workforce equity, the GW Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity (GWMI) tracks who is providing services, what services, where, and for whom. This allows us to approximate the adequacy of the health workforce supply for specific populations, using alternative measures of population needs. Researchers, policymakers, and advocates can use these interactive trackers to select variables depending on their own priorities.
We welcome comments and questions at gwmi@gwu.edu.
NOTE: Trackers are developed under the auspices of specific externally funded projects and, therefore, vary in their focus and the breadth of data included.
U.S. Medicaid Primary Care Workforce Tracker
For all healthcare services, the provider workforce represents a critical piece of the puzzle in determining equitable access to essential health services. The U.S. Medicaid Primary Care Workforce Tracker focuses on the primary care workforce providing service to Medicaid populations in the United States.
U.S. Contraception Workforce Dashboard
This dashboard shows the location and clinician-to-population ratio of the U.S. contraception workforce from 2020-2024. Using multiple national-level datasets, we constructed contraception access catchment areas that account for both clinician availability and patient travel times, which can be displayed at the state, county, census tract, or census block group level.
Health Workforce Diversity Tracker
Providing a unique view into how the racial/ethnic diversity of the workforce in over 20 key health professions varies across states. Despite recent focus on this issue, little information is available on how representation in the health professions differs across the country. This tool is intended to help people understand which professions have the greatest gaps in their region.
Behavioral Health Workforce Tracker
Visualize the geographic distribution of the behavioral health workforce by provider type and by Medicaid acceptance status. You can use the tool to view provider location and build additional layers of patient need, demographic, and health policy data.
Prescription Contraception Workforce Tracker
An interactive map that monitors the location, clinician specialty, and distribution/clinician density of the prescription contraception workforce. The tracker uses IQVIA prescription claims to identify prescribers with at least 10 new prescriptions of the contraceptive pill, patch, and/or ring. The claims cover an estimated 92 – 94% of all retail prescription claims nationally in 2019 – 2023. With this tool you can examine state and county variation in the prescription contraception workforce, track the workforce over time, compare prescribing across specialties. [Archived 9/2/2026]
Medicaid Contraception Workforce Tracker
An interactive map that lets you examine and visualize the workforce providing contraception care to individuals enrolled in Medicaid. The Tracker uses Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) to identify clinicians who provided contraception care to Medicaid beneficiaries each year. T-MSIS collects Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) data from U.S. states, territories, and D.C., including fee-for-service and managed care plan data. It also uses National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) to identify clinician profession/specialty and non-Medicaid providers. [Archived 9/2/26]
COVID-19 County Workforce Deficit Estimator
A tool identifying counties likely to experience workforce strain due to high rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU occupancy. Using county-level COVID-19 hospitalization and ICU projections provided by Premier Inc. and county-level data on the number of intensivists available provided by IQVIA, the tracker calculates whether counties will have to implement crisis or contingency workforce staffing scenarios to accommodate COVID-19 surges. County executives can use this information to implement new emergency social distancing guidelines that may prevent future cases from developing as projected and mitigate expected hospital workforce strain. [Archived 6/29/22]
Contact Tracing Workforce Estimator
A tool for state and local leaders for COVID-19 contact tracing in order to safely reopen and protect the health of communities. The CT Estimator uses a baseline of 15 CTs per 100,000 population and increases the number of CTs, as needed, to contact trace the 14-day number of new COVID-19 cases for each county over the course of a week (JHU CSSE). Preset case contacts and CT work capacity (e.g. the number of case interviews, contact notifications, and contact follow-ups a CT can conduct daily) were set according to available data and expert opinion. The preset parameters assume number of case contacts with social distancing and work capacity to include some social needs evaluation and case management. [Archived 6/29/22]
Emergency Vaccinator Policies for COVID-19
An interactive map showing states with temporary, emergency policies authorizing specific professions to administer COVID-19 vaccines. This new interactive tool geographically displays state policies that expand on the types of personnel authorized to administer COVID-19 vaccines beyond physicians, advanced practice nurses, and other clinicians whose scopes of practice traditionally includes vaccinations. Tracking workforce flexibility at the state level will allow researchers and policy-makers to view the geographic distribution of these policies and compare them across states. [Archived 6/29/22]
State Hospital Workforce Deficit Estimator
A tool to help state and federal policy leaders assess their health workforce’s sufficiency to meet COVID-19 cases in hospitals. [Archived 1/16/21]