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The last two years have been incredibly taxing on our country’s healthcare workforce, elevating pre-pandemic issues to a crisis level. Clinics are struggling to hire, develop and retain staff, and workers are facing burnout, low pay, and the mental health repercussions that come after two years on the frontlines. Federal funding is providing some immediate relief, but additional support is necessary, along with a longer-term strategy to support the field and diversify the workforce. Join SCG’s Health Funders Group to better understand the landscape of healthcare workforce needs at this time. We’ll map out the work attendees are currently engaged in, and highlight ways that philanthropy can build on existing state and federal efforts to ensure a comprehensive response.

About SCG's Health Funders Group

The SCG Health Funders Group convenes multiple times a year to explore emerging issues in healthcare and health policy through an intersectional approach. The group hosts topic-based and peer-to-peer learning sessions. These facilitated sessions will provide a forum for updates on critical issues, highlights of promising programs, and opportunities for collaboration. 

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Eva Batalla-Mann

Workforce Retention Coordinator, Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County - Los Angeles, CA

Eva has always worked at the intersection of health and social justice. While attending Tufts University, Eva earned a double major in Community Health and Peace & Justice Studies. After graduating, Eva worked for Collective Health, a healthcare technology company where she learned about the challenges and inequities of our healthcare system. Eva then returned to Southern California to earn Dual Masters Degrees in Public Health and Social Welfare from UCLA. During her time at UCLA, Eva worked in various fields including juvenile justice, houselessness, weight stigma and food justice. Eva interned at CCALAC during her final year of graduate school in order to explore the intersections of access, healthcare policy and health inequities. After completing her internship and her degrees, Eva returned to CCALAC as the Workforce Retention Coordinator where she created the Collaborative for Retention, Engagement and Wellness (CREW) to support clinics with workforce challenges magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Carlina Hansen SCG Member

Senior Program Officer, California Health Care Foundation

Prior to joining the team at CHCF, Carlina worked at the Women’s Community Clinic in San Francisco, where she served as the executive director for 17 years. Prior to her work at the clinic, she was a senior program coordinator at the Tides Center, a fiscal sponsor and nonprofit incubator. She serves on the board of the Family Planning and Reproductive Health Organization. Carlina is a graduate of the Women’s Policy Institute of the Women’s Foundation of California and of the Clinic Leadership Institute, a project of the Blue Shield of California Foundation and UCSF’s Center for the Health Professions. She holds a master’s degree in health care administration from the University of California, San Francisco, where she now serves on the program faculty. Her portfolio at CHCF is largely centered on addressing health workforce needs in order to improve access to high quality, culturally responsive care in California.
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Marko Mijic

Undersecretary, California Health and Human Services Agency

Marko Mijic
Undersecretary
California Health and Human Services Agency

Marko Mijic serves as the Undersecretary at the California Health and Human Services Agency. In this role, Marko oversees 12 departments and five offices, which includes over 34,000 employees and a total annual budget of approximately $200 billion.

As Undersecretary, Marko leads all policy development and implementation, and manages the day-to-day operations of the Agency. He is focused on streamlining government and improving operational efficiency; expanding access to health and human services; building an equitable recovery from the pandemic; integrating health, behavioral health and social services to promote whole-person care; and improving the delivery of services for older Californians and people with disabilities.

Prior to being appointed as the Undersecretary by Governor Gavin Newsom, Marko served as Deputy Secretary for Program and Fiscal Affairs since 2019 and as Assistant Secretary since 2015. Marko also served as Acting Director of the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development from 2020 to 2021.

Prior to joining the California Health and Human Services Agency, Marko worked at the American Heart Association and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah and his Master of Public Policy degree from the American University School of Public Affairs in Washington, DC.

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Diane Rittenhouse

Senior Fellow, Mathematica

Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH, a senior fellow at Mathematica and Professor of Family Medicine and Health Policy at UCSF, has two decades of experience researching health care organization, delivery, finance, and workforce – and translating that research into policy. She received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has been recognized in the United States and Europe as a leading primary care researcher. She was Principal Investigator for the evaluation of federal efforts to restore, expand and improve primary care and behavioral health care services in Greater New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She has also been Co-Investigator on multiple large national studies of physician practices funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, and The Commonwealth Fund.

Dr. Rittenhouse has studied and worked across specialties and disciplines to expand graduate medical education (GME) for physicians in training in California. She serves as Director of a Transitional Program Office for GME Expansion in California, funded by the California Health Care Foundation.

Dr. Rittenhouse has written extensively about the patient-centered medical home, quality of care, accountable care organizations, accountable communities for health, health information technology, and the health workforce. She is a family physician by training and practiced for 10 years in a community-based faculty practice at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Sheila Thornton

Coachella Valley Economic Partnership

As President & CEO of OneFuture Coachella Valley, Sheila Thornton is guided by its mission to assure students succeed in college, career and life – expanding and enhancing the local workforce so that our youth and economy thrive. Prior to the formation of OneFuture Coachella Valley, Sheila served as Vice President of Workforce Excellence for the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership (CVEP), where she led coalition-building, fundraising and program development strategies. In March 2017, she spearheaded the transition from Workforce Excellence to OneFuture Coachella Valley, a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose purpose is to cultivate the next generation workforce from within the region's student population, offering a path to economic mobility for low-income and underrepresented students. Sheila serves on the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus Advancement Board, the Growing Inland Achievement board of directors, the national leadership team for the Ford Motor Company Fund Next Generation Learning (Ford NGL) Initiative and the national advisory committee for Health Career Connection. She is a former board member of the Linked Learning Alliance in California, and the California Future Health Workforce Commission. Sheila received a B.S. degree in Applied Math from Loyola Marymount University. Her early career as an analyst and project manager for an economic research and consulting firm and as Director of Community Services for a non-profit hospital has established a solid foundation for her current work – building and leading an organization that uses strong coalitions to guide the region's students and future leaders toward success.

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