Healthforce Center at UCSF

Healthforce Center at UCSF connects the people and sectors of health care to create a collective force for health, equity, and action. We prepare health care organizations for success by combining a deep understanding of the issues facing their workforce with the leadership skills to drive progress. Only by bringing together the human ingredients of health care can organizations truly drive positive change. Understanding the dynamics between workforce issues, and the leadership skills required to address them, is a vital step to successfully navigating the health care landscape. Healthforce Center offers services to a wide variety of [clients](https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/about-us/our-clients) such as foundations, hospitals, delivery systems, organizations, and individuals to ensure more effective health care delivery and to inform health care policy. Our efforts are focused on: [research](https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/research-action) with actionable results, [consulting and evaluation](https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/consulting-evaluation-services), [programs](https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/node/4) that develop leadership and resilience, making [connections across sectors](https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/connections-across-sectors), and [advancing equity](https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/advancing-equity). Mission and vision At Healthforce Center, we believe that people are the most important element in health care. Our mission is to equip people with the workforce knowledge, leadership skills, and network connections to create a collective force for health, equity, and action. We envision an effective and responsive health care ecosystem that is driving progress toward more equitable health outcomes for all. We provide research, programming, consulting, and evaluation in support of these goals. History Healthforce Center at UCSF (formerly the Center for the Health Professions) was founded in 1992. For three decades, our research and publications have helped health care leaders and policymakers better understand the health workforce and develop successful improvement strategies and policies. Our dynamic leadership training programs have touched thousands of people who continue to make significant and meaningful change in health care. From the beginning, our work has been shaped by the recognition that [equity is essential for healthy communities](https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/advancing-equity). Healthforce Center is part of the University of California, San Francisco, the leading university dedicated to advancing health worldwide. Our collective mandate is to advance health care quality and equity.