
UNE President James D. Herbert, Ph.D., has, for the second time, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security in Washington, D.C., about the health care workforce shortage and methods to improve it.
Herbert, who was introduced by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, spoke during a Congressional hearing titled “Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here?” at the request of Subcommittee Chairman U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Herbert first spoke before the HELP subcommittee on the topic in May 2021.