Biographical Information
Erin P. Fraher, PhD, MPP, is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as Deputy Director for Policy and Director of the Program on Health Workforce Research & Policy at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Dr. Fraher’s research on the training, regulation, and payment of the nation’s health workforce has been used by state and federal policy makers in their efforts to address workforce shortages, particularly in rural and underserved communities. She is often called upon to brief Congressional and Senate staff and members, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state governors, state legislatures, health systems and other public and private sector leaders on a wide range of emerging health workforce topics. She has served as an expert advisor to the National Academy of Medicine in multiple roles, serving on the planning committee, as a workshop co-chair, as a speaker on various workforce topics, and as a reviewer of a NAM report. Dr. Fraher is the immediate past Chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) which is charged with advising the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Congress on workforce trends, training issues, and financing.
Dr. Fraher was also recently appointed to the 2024 Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors. The CBO hosts an annual meeting to discuss important and emerging health care issues and also engages with advisors throughout the year, drawing on their advice in the preparation of CBO studies and cost estimates.
Areas of Interest
Dr. Fraher’s research focuses on graduate medical education, interprofessional teams in new models of care, developing rigorous methodologies to project how many health workers will be needed under different possible “futures,” and using life course theory to better understand health professionals’ career trajectories.
Related Links
Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy, Cecil. G Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Carolina Health Workforce Research Center
In The News
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Family Medicine researchers funded to study shift to value-based care
Led by Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, associate professor of family medicine, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have been awarded a $255,000 grant from The Duke Endowment to study UNC Family Medicine’s shift to a value-based health care model.
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Erin Fraher Granted North Carolina Institute of Medicine Award for Excellence in Health Policy Leadership
The North Carolina Institute of Medicine presented Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, director of the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center, with the Award for Excellence in Health Policy Leadership at the NCIOM 2019 Annual Meeting today.
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UNC Team led by Page receives $2.4 million to establish technical assistance center to help develop residencies in rural communities
A national team led by Cristy Page, MD, MPH, Chair of UNC Family Medicine, has been awarded $2.4 million of funding in a cooperative agreement by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
