Hogan Receives NSF Grant for Research in Health Professions Education Strategies for Broadening Participation

Andrew Hogan, PhD, Fr. Henry W. Casper, SJ, Professor of History, director of the Science and Medicine in Society program, and professor in the departments of history and medical humanities, received a three-year $209,769 National Science Foundation grant for his research on "Health Professions Education Strategies for Broadening Participation in Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy."

The NSF grant will support Hogan's ongoing archival and oral history research examining diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in U.S. health professions since 1960. Over the next three years, Hogan will work with multiple Creighton undergraduate research assistants to explore, analyze, present and publish on this history.