Kyla F Woodward

Dr. Woodward is a health services and health workforce researcher who examines nursing and health workforce outcomes such as job turnover and wellbeing. With a background as an RN for over 25 years, Dr. Woodward has experience in inpatient care, hospital nursing education, and clinical and didactic faculty roles. Her doctoral and post-doctoral research focuses on nursing workforce outcomes including turnover or retention and the wellbeing of nurses and other clinicians. Her projects have included examining various dimensions of the nursing workforce, evaluating job mobility trends in the health workforce, and understanding health workforce job mobility in the context of macroeconomic trends. Dr. Woodward believes that workforce research needs to include understanding the dynamic and changing contexts that shape job-related outcomes over time as well as considering systems issues that impact healthcare worker outcomes. She strives to understand when and how outcomes differ for workers with different identities and backgrounds and the underlying systems, structures, and policies leading to those differences. Dr. Woodward collaborates closely with the University of Washington Center for Health Workforce Studies to complete workforce projects related to allied health workers and health equity.