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Health Workforce Programs

Our workforce programs help strengthen the health workforce and connect skilled health care providers to communities in need, improving the health of people who need it most.

We offer scholarship, loan, and loan repayment programs to individuals and award grants to organizations (For example, schools, hospitals, health departments).

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Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP)

Program Type: Loan Repayment
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine; Nursing; Oral Health
Purpose: Provide loan repayment assistance to faculty members from economically and environmentally disadvantaged backgrounds with eligible health professions degrees or certificates to serve at eligible academic institutions.
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Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program

Program Type: Loan Repayment
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine; Nursing
Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, and behavioral/mental health clinicians with specific training and credentials providing pediatric medical subspecialty, pediatric surgical specialty, or child and adolescent mental and behavioral health care in Health Professional Shortage Areas.
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Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine
Purpose: Expand the number of fellows at accredited addiction medicine fellowship (AMF) and addiction psychiatry fellowship (APF) programs trained as addiction medicine specialists who work in underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorder and substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment services. The program encompasses both psychiatry and an addiction subspecialty for primary care doctors.

Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Medicine; Nursing
Explore HRSA's Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program, improving healthcare access by training and supporting health professionals in underserved areas.

Centers of Excellence Program (COE)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine; Oral Health
Explore HRSA's Centers of Excellence (COE) Program, advancing diversity in health professions education and improving care for underserved populations.

Health Professions Student Loans (HPSL)

Program Type: School Loan Program
Topic: Medicine; Oral Health
Read about HRSA's Health Professions Student Loans (HPSL) including eligibility and how to apply.

Integrated Substance Use Disorder Training Program (ISTP)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine
Learn about HRSA's Integrated Substance Use Disorder Training Program (ISTP), training practicing professionals to provide addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery services in underserved communities.