SUNY Downstate and SUNY Center for Workforce Studies
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, the academic medical center for Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, has served as the educational anchor and opportunity for traditionally underrepresented students through its Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Health Related Professions and Schools of Public Health and Graduate School of Science. With nearly 1,800 students enrolled in the health professional programs and over 1,050 graduate medical trainees, SUNY Downstate is embedded in the ethnically and racially diverse inner city of Brooklyn, NY and has a demonstrated commitment to educating students reflective of the communities we serve and to impact the health disparities of our communities.
The SUNY Right Health Professionals for the Right Places (RP2) initiative is collecting and analyzing New York state health workforce data as well as data from all SUNY campuses with degree programs in health care professions. The initiative intends to better align SUNY education offerings with state needs. SUNY Downstate is a principal partner in the initiative, along with the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.
SUNY Downstate has partnered with the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health and the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President to create the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, which aims to develop and implement models to reduce health disparities in minority and new immigrant populations in Brooklyn through research, community education, and health professional training.
The AAMC rates the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in the top decile nationwide in terms of underrepresented minority students and faculty.
The Center for Health Workforce Studies is a not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to provide timely, accurate data and conduct policy-relevant research about the health workforce.
Project Team
Executive Council
- Ruth Brown, ScD Chief Executive Officer, Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
- Daisy Cruz-Richman, Ph.D. Dean, College of Nursing
- Dorothy Fyfe, MPA Assistant Vice President for Policy and Planning
- Constance Hill, M.D. Associate Dean of Minority Affairs
- Pascal Imperato, M.D., MPH, TM Dean, School of Public Health
- Sheldon Landesman, M.D. Assistant Dean for Clinical Education
- Moro Salifu, M.D., MPH, MBA, FACP Interim Chair of Medicine
- Mark Stewart, M.D., Ph.D. Dean, School of Graduate Studies
- Ian Taylor, M.D., Ph.D. – Principal Investigator Senior Vice President for Biomedical Education & Research and Dean, College of Medicine
- John Williams, Jr., M.D., Ed.D., MPH, FCCM President, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Project Management Team
- Kevin Antoine, Esq. Chief Diversity Officer
- Lori Bruno, MPH Associate, Planning
- Melanie Gehen, MHSA Vice President, Academic Fiscal Affairs
- Elizabeth Lang, MS Program Coordinator
- Jean Moore, MSN Director, Center for Workforce Studies (SUNY Albany)
Data Team
- Jean Moore, MSN Director, Center for Workforce Studies (SUNY Albany)
- Jeffrey Putman, Ed.D. Vice President of Student Affairs