The Alabama Office of
Healthcare Workforce
An academic research center dedicated to understanding the supply, demand, distribution, and use of health workers across the state.
Driven to Discover
Established in 2019, the Alabama Office of Healthcare Workforce (AOHW) is an academic research center that accomplishes the work necessary to assist health, professional, and educational organizations, policy makers, planners, and other stakeholders in the understanding of issues related to the supply, demand, distribution, and use of health workers across the state.
Career Exploration & Development
Every day, around the clock, people who work in the health care industry provide care for millions of people, from newborns to the very ill. In fact, the health care industry is one of largest providers of jobs in the United States. Many health jobs are in hospitals. Others are in nursing homes, doctors’ offices, dentists’ offices, outpatient clinics and laboratories.
To work in a health occupation, you often must have special training. Some, like doctors, must have more than 4 years of college.
Visit the following webpages for more information about different health occupation career paths and find the right one for you:
Alabama Community College System Healthcare Programs
List of Health Occupations and information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Healthcare Occupational Outlook Handbook
Online guide for Health Care Career Planning and Education Information
Find the right health career for you using this online tool
If you’re a future healthcare leader and want to be inspired by some of the best, contact us today.
Regional Centers
The Alabama AHEC Network is dedicated to recruiting, training, and retaining the Alabama healthcare workforce while broadening the distribution of the health workforce, enhancing the quality of care, and improving health care delivery to rural and underserved populations in Alabama. The following centers are members of the Alabama AHEC Network and are federally funded HRSA AHEC Programs and nationally recognized Area Health Education Centers: Alabama Statewide Network Program Office, North Alabama AHEC (NAAHEC), East Central Alabama AHEC (ECAAHEC), Black Belt Alabama AHEC (BBAAHEC), Wiregrass Alabama AHEC (WAAHEC), Delta Alabama AHEC (DAAHEC).
