Meet Dr. Patricia (Polly) Pittman
Patricia (Polly) Pittman, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University. Dr. Pittman holds a secondary appointment in the School of Nursing. She is the director of the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity and Health Workforce Research Center on Emerging Health Workforce Topics.
Dr. Pittman teaches and focuses her research on health workforce policy. Her recent focus is on workforce innovations in the context of system change. She is currently leading the Moral Injury Among Nurses project, which hopes to inform policies and programs that seek to improve the working conditions of nurses. Dr. Pittman has provided research support for the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing and with support from the MacArthur Foundation, has led a series of studies examining the recruitment of foreign-educated health professionals to the U.S.