Healthcare and Life Sciences Workforce Development Pipeline Program
- Increased number of high school STEM students to professional health science careers
- Increased diversity in the professional pipeline
- Next-generation leadership skills development
What?
Why?
- Healthcare will add more jobs between 2016 and 2026 than any other industry.
- By 2050, minorities will account for greater than 40% of the U.S. population, yet make up less than 16% of the STEM workforce.
- Women today constitute almost 50% of the labor force, yet only 28% of STEM workers
- Our senior population grows and people live longer (10,000 people a day turn 65) creating unprecedented demand on the healthcare system
How?
- Working with industry, educating students prepared for careers of the future
- The comprehensive custom STEM curriculum, problem-based learning, social-emotional learning, approved in 48 states
- Career shadow (40 careers per academic year)
- Long term mentoring
- Longitudinal tracking (grade 9 through graduate education)
