UMD SPH Joins Alliance Dedicated to Diversifying Maryland's Health Workforce

Our School is proud to join a new academic partnership aimed at tackling the shortage of primary and preventative health care professionals and the lack of diversity among that group. The Maryland Alliance to Transform the Health Professions is designed to address the state’s growing health care needs, expanding and diversifying our health workforce.


Dean Gold joined with other reps from Maryland academic health institutions and historically black colleges and universities for a formal signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, marking the official formation of the Maryland Alliance.

Over the past 25 years, America’s growing and increasingly diverse population has surpassed its number of trained health personnel. In 2006, the Association of American Medical Colleges recommended a thirty percent expansion in the number of physicians trained, in order to avert a doctor shortage ─ a shortage predicted to be 20,000 by the year 2015, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has projected that the current shortage of nurses may grow to a deficiency of one million by 2020, if current trends continue.

Find out more about this exciting alliance here. Click here for a list of the schools who signed the agreement.