Licensed pharmacists are essential spokes in the health care wheel. In addition to dispensing medication, they collaborate with other health care providers to advise on and ensure medication treatments are safe and effective, and even more. Their roles have expanded over the years, with many now offering vaccinations, health screenings, and medication therapy management services. Learn more about the many settings in which they work and the important role they play in the health care workforce below.
This has the data, tables, and descriptive analysis that are the bedrock of the rest of the documents linked here. It’s a one-stop shop containing demographic, education, practice settings, and other information on Indiana pharmacists. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the pharmacist workforce, offering valuable insights for policymakers, educators, and health care administrators.
This is a digestible take on the Indiana pharmacist workforce and the policies that impact it. Visualizations and commentary help provide context for and insight into the data. The brief highlights key trends and changes in the workforce, making complex data accessible to a broader audience.
Turning an eye toward diversity in the workforce, this looks at how diversity among Indiana’s pharmacists has changed over the years and how that compares to the state as a whole. It also highlights policies and programs that may be contributing to diversity. This report is crucial for understanding how well the pharmacist workforce represents the communities it serves and identifying areas for improvement.
This shows pharmacist job growth projections through 2030 and highlights the top counties for growth. The brief provides essential information for workforce planning, helping to anticipate future needs and potential shortages in different regions of the state.
Bowen’s Playbook for Enhancing Indiana’s Mental and Behavioral Health Workforce is getting attention in the press across Indiana. Check out this article from the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette:
Indiana has a shortage of mental health professionals, a situation a provider describes as a crisis, a report released Wednesday says.
“The Playbook for Enhancing Indiana’s Mental and Behavioral Health Workforce” seeks to address that shortage by identifying opportunities and recommendations to strengthen the state’s pipeline of those professionals.
Indiana’s mental health care is in crisis, with both real-life impacts on the everyday lives of millions of Hoosiers and for the long-term economic outlook of our state. Our Playbook tackles that crisis head-on, offering concrete policy solutions to increase the number of mental health care workers in Indiana. Find out more here.
Bowen Center Director Dr. Hannah Maxey presented August 1 the Playbook for Enhancing Indiana’s Mental and Behavioral Health Workforce to the Indiana Commission to Combat Substance Use Disorder. Indiana faces an enormous challenge of recruiting and retaining a sufficient number of mental and behavioral health workers, with every county in the state meeting the criteria for a federally designated workforce shortage in these areas.
The results are staggering, with real-life implications for hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers:
