California Health Professions Pathways Program: Population Health Investment

The California Department of Health Care Access and Information, in partnership with Covered California, is accepting 2026 Health Professions Pathways Program: Population Health Investment applications. Approximately $4.8 million is available to support organizational programs that strengthen a diverse healthcare workforce through pipeline programs, paid summer internships, post-undergraduate fellowships, and post-baccalaureate pathways. Applications are due October 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM. The current HCAI program page and 2026 grant guide publish the clock time but do not identify a time zone, so Atlas does not infer one.

Eligible applicant categories vary by award category and include qualifying public and private nonprofit colleges and universities, community colleges, high schools and school districts, health professions training programs, community-based organizations, community health centers, and qualifying Essential Community Provider types identified in the 2026 grant guide.

The current HCAI grant agreement allows grant funds for consultants, lecturers, workshop instructors, sub-grantees, in-state travel, advertising, meals, supplies, off-campus facility costs, reasonable participant accommodations, and qualifying program expansion. It expressly prohibits using grant funds to purchase equipment or construct or renovate facilities, and also bars supplementing salaries of existing full-time staff or paying release time for those staff.

Applicants should therefore build technology-related concepts only where the proposed role is an expressly allowable service, instructional, implementation or pathway-support expense. Do not budget N9+ or other clinical technology as an equipment purchase under this opportunity.