Increasing the diversity of primary care, behavioral health, and dental providers to better reflect California's population requires more effectively recruiting diverse student populations, especially Latinx students, into health profession training programs, a report from Mathematica and the California Health Care Foundation finds. According to the report, Health Workforce Strategies for California: A Review of the Evidence (25 pages, PDF), one-year postbaccalaureate pipeline programs that recruit college graduates from underrepresented communities and prepare them for admission to medical, dental, and nursing schools have been shown to expand access to care in underserved areas and improve workforce diversity. The review also found that funding scholarship and loan repayment programs that help pay for a student's health professional education in exchange for postgraduate service in a particular specialty or geography, boosting capacity at training programs in underserved urban and rural areas, and increasing the number of residency positions in primary care and psychiatry are effective means of diversifying the healthcare workforce and increasing access to care.