Research: Web-based tool seeks to fill health care workforce gaps
When the pandemic hit the United States last year, researchers saw an immediate need to increase the capacity of qualified health care providers to address the spreading coronavirus. Janette Hill, co-principal investigator and professor in the Department of Career and Information Studies, helped create C2-Health, a National Science Foundation RAPID grant-funded project.
By creating a web-based tool that individuals and employers can use to explore health care-related competency frameworks, self-identify skill gaps, and find credentials and training, this project aims to increase the capacity of qualified health care providers to address the challenges of COVID-19. This tool will help individuals identify health care areas where they have adjacent skill sets and will also help companies identify employees who are candidates for upskilling into health care. After individual skills are inventoried, the tool will help users identify where they can obtain the requisite health care skills and credentials.
“The idea was to get as much done as we could in six months to develop this tool,” Hill said. “C2-Health is specifically geared toward helping people find jobs related to COVID-19.”