Janette Dill, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management

Contact Info
Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
PhD, Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2011
MA, Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008
MPH, Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008
BA, Psychology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 2002
Summary
I am a sociologist, and my research focuses on the health care workforce. My current projects include measuring regional variation in the supply of the direct care workforce, racial and gender disparities in the rewards for professional certification and unionization among direct care workers, and measuring the employment behavior and intentions of direct care workers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expertise
Health care workforce; direct care workers; human resource practices and policies; career mobility in health care organizations
Research
Research Funding Grants
- 2021, University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, US Health Resources and Services Administration, "The direct care workforce in rural areas," Project Lead
- 2021, University of Minnesota Life Course Center Pilot Grant, "The direct care workforce in long-term care services and supports in the care of adults with AD/ADRD," Principal Investigator
- 2021, Times Up Foundation, "Wear and care: The impact of COVID-19 on health care workers’ employment decisions," Principal Investigator
- 2020, University of California Berkeley, "California Whole Person Care Frontline Worker Survey," Co-Investigator
- 2020, University of Washington, "Tracking employment of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic," Co-Investigator
Publications
- Dill, Janette, Jasmine Travers, and Bianca Frogner (forthcoming). “Taking the long view: The prevalence of second job holding among long-term care workers.” Medical Care Research & Review.
- Frogner, Bianca and Janette Dill (forthcoming). “Tracking employment of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.” JAMA Open.
- Chantarat, Tongtan, Eva A Enns, Rachel R Hardeman, Patricia M McGovern, Samuel L Myers, and Janette Dill (forthcoming). Occupational class, power, and hypertension inequity: The implication of the inverse hazard law among healthcare. Journal of Economics, Policy, and Race.
- Dill, Janette and Mignon Duffy (2022). “Structural Racism And Black Women’s Employment In The US Health Care Sector.” Health Affairs, 41 (2), 265-272. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01400 *Both authors contributed equally
- Dill, Janette, Jennifer C. Morgan, and Emmeline Chuang. 2021. “Improving medical assistant (MA) job quality: Career ladders for MAs in primary care.” Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36 (11), 3423-3430. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-021-06814-5
- Jill Yavorsky, Enrica Ruggs, and Janette Dill. 2021. “Gendered skills and unemployed men’s resistance to ‘women’s work.’” Gender, Work, and Organization, 28 (4), 1524-1545 https://doiorg.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/10.1111/gwao.12694
- Travers, J.L., Caceres, B.A., Vlahov, D., Zaidi, H., Dill, J., Stone, R.I., Stone, P.W. 2021. Federal requirements for nursing homes to include certified nursing assistants in resident care planning and interdisciplinary teams: A policy analysis. Nursing Outlook, 69 (4), 617-625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2021.01.004
- Swiatek, Scott* and Janette Dill. 2021. “Age and men’s entry and retention in female-dominated occupations.” Sociological Focus 54 (2), 138-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380237.2021.1894282 *Former graduate student
See a full list of publications at PubMed
Teaching
Teaching Areas
Human Resources
Media
In The News
SPH News
- University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. Research Brief: "Is health care the new manufacturing when it comes to “good jobs?” October 16, 2019
In the Media
- Black women are overrepresented and underpaid in health care’s toughest jobs, study shows (The Washington Post)
- Addressing systemic racial inequity in the health care workforce (Health Affairs Blog)
- Women’s gains in the workforce conceal a problem (The New York Times)
- Cover story: Health care jobs are booming in NC, but low pay is a big problem (Triangle Business Journal)
- The shock of unemployment may push men into jobs traditionally held by women, study shows (The Washington Post)
- Unemployment pushes more men into female-dominated jobs (The Conversation)
- Is health care the new manufacturing? (Work in Progress)
- Medicare for All’s jobs problem (Politico)