Dr. Taylor B. Rogers is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Healthforce Center at the University of California, San Francisco and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. In the Fall, she will join the faculty at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in the School of Social Work and Public Health as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Public Health Workforce Initiative. Her journey in public health began in community engagement and health education. In her current role, she is leading the development of an anti-racist, equity-oriented conceptual framework for health workforce research and policymaking. She earned her PhD in Health Policy and Management from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, where she specialized in sociology. She also holds an MPH in Health Equity and a BS in Community Health, both from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Her research focuses on the pathway, workforce development, and retention of systematically underrepresented communities within the public health and healthcare workforce, how their work impacts health inequities, and how their experiences can inform interventions and policies to address health, healthcare, and workplace inequities. Her research has been published in Health Services Research, Health Equity, Field Methods, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Public Health Genomics.
Her commitment to advancing equity extends beyond her research and teaching. Dr. Rogers has held leadership roles in various initiatives, including chairing the University of North Carolina (UNC) Minority Health Conference at UCLA, and serving on the AcademyHealth Health Equity Interest Group Advisory Committee.