Erin Fraher's guest appearances

Erin Fraher

NEJM Interviews

Advancing Health

Neel Shah

Wendy Parmet

David Kessler

Robert Aronowitz

Aaron Kesselheim

Mark Hall

George Church

David Hunter

Vivian Lee

George Annas

John McDonough

Sean Duffy

Robert Schwartz

Henry Ford

Deborah Anderson

OwlTail

On this Leadership Dialogue Series podcast, AHA Board Chair Wright Lassiter III, talks with Erin Fraher, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and research associate professor in the Department of Surgery at UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, N.C. She also is director of the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center, one of five national health workforce research centers in the U.S.Erin and Wright talk about trends in the health care workforce that have been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Erin suggests the fundamental questions for hospitals and health systems are, “How are we deploying [people]? How are we utilizing them to the best possible ability to keep them happy, keep the hospital productive and keep patients healthy and well?” She further explains: “It’s this notion of turning workforce planning on its head — from planning for professions to planning for patients.

On this Leadership Dialogue Series podcast, AHA Board Chair Wright Lassiter III, talks with Erin Fraher, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and research associate professor in the Department of Surgery at UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, N.C. She also is director of the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center, one of five national health workforce research centers in the U.S.<br>Erin and Wright talk about trends in the health care workforce that have been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Erin suggests the fundamental questions for hospitals and health systems are, “How are we deploying [people]? How are we utilizing them to the best possible ability to keep them happy, keep the hospital productive and keep patients healthy and well?” She further explains: “It’s this notion of turning workforce planning on its head — from planning for professions to planning for patients.

Leadership Dialogue Series: Erin Fraher

Dr. Erin Fraher is the director of the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. E.P. Fraher and Others. Ensuring and Sustaining a Pandemic Workforce. N Engl J Med 2020;382:2181-2183.

NEJM Interview: Dr. Erin Fraher on opportunities for expanding health workforce capacity during the Covid-19 pandemic.