Family Medicine Research

The Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy provides expert technical assistance and research expertise on health workforce issues, evaluations, and strategic planning support. Through partnerships with state agencies, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, health professionals, employers, and community advocates, the Bowen Center analyzes complex health workforce challenges to inform policy and programming. Topics such as supply, demand, and distribution of health professionals in Indiana, Medicaid enrollment, and policies affecting health professionals are central service activities. Other expert research activities include producing technical resources from the collection and management of health workforce information, and the tracking and analyzing of the impact of policy trends across different states to inform evidence-based policy decisions in Indiana. Hannah Maxey, PhD directs the IU School of Medicine Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy.

The educational arm of the Department of Family Medicine is active in health-education research at the national and international levels. The department’s Indiana Area Health Education Centers Network has secured federal funding from Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA). Other research includes continuous improvement in educational settings, faculty development, flipped classroom, behavioral health integration and tobacco cessation.