Essential and Exiting: COVID-19’s Impact on Low Wage Healthcare Workers

Female health care worker with mask
Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
December 6, 2022 - 12:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm
Virtual event

Nursing assistants, home health aides, and personal care aides provide crucial supports and often lifelines for ill, disabled and elderly individuals and their family members. The COVID-19 pandemic led many of these workers to leave their jobs, resulting in a veritable crisis of care in Minnesota. The Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy is pleased to present a new research report that helps to understand why these workers have exited, and what can be done to bring them back. Please join us for a virtual discussion of the report’s findings and recommendations.

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Janette Dill, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, UMN (report co-author)
Minnesota State Senator Jim Abeler (MN 35)
Minnesota State Senator, John Hoffman (MN 36)
Jamie Gulley, President SEIU Healthcare Minnesota

Moderated by:
Dr. Christina Ewig, Professor of Public Affairs and Director of Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy

Contact Info
This event is hosted by the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs. If you have questions or need to request accommodations for this event, please email [email protected].