This webinar explores issues related to the multi-sector workforce for population health improvement, including strengthening and supporting the workforce, addressing attrition and attrition, and how to best use resources made available in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics are discussed in the context of the need to promote equity and ensure readiness to respond to evolving opportunities and challenges.
A Population Health Workforce to Meet 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities: A Workshop
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Public Health Workforce Development and Diversity
The public health workforce plays an essential role in securing the vital conditions for health and well-being for all to thrive. A skilled, resourced, and robust public health workforce is needed to meet the demands of public health today and prepare for the needs of tomorrow. A diverse public health workforce is better equipped to address the needs of the most impacted and marginalized, and implement population health strategies. COVID-19 has shed light on challenges facing the public health workforce, while also exacerbating them. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the need to skill up the workforce; support workers’ needs; center equity in workforce development efforts; and plan for the future.