Public Health Spotlight: A Day in the Life
This video showcases diverse career opportunities in public health, including the private sector, government, climate justice, and oral health roles. It aims...
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.
Transforming our systems for equity requires diversifying the public health workforce and growing workforce competencies to address health inequities. Hiring community health workers and outreach workers who live in the communities they serve can expand access to health information and services, engage community members, and build trust.
This webpage serves as a guide to help state and local leaders and allies advance urgent health equity priorities as part of COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. The guide is organized into six guiding principles for supporting a community-based workforce.
This article highlights the importance of and need for reliable, high-quality COVID-19 surveillance data. It provides a detailed chart of suggestions on how to improve the validity and interpretation of COVID-19 data by laying out commons issues, examples of misleading statements, and advices on how to better collect, display, and convey data.
This library provides resources and trainings to help public health workers build resilience.
This report discusses a modernized public health system that provides a framework of practical, prioritized, and bipartisan actions for policymakers and public health officials.
This website provides new resources, strategies and recommendations for strengthening the public health workforce.
This video showcases diverse career opportunities in public health, including the private sector, government, climate justice, and oral health roles. It aims...
This resource calls for a comprehensive rethinking of how public health education is delivered, advocating for a shift towards more inclusive, equitable, inn...
This video discusses how historic investments during the pandemic have allowed for expanding and diversifying the public health workforce. It features insigh...
This resource allows free access to the Big Interview online platform for Public Health AmeriCorps members, aiming to enhance their job interview skills and ...
This podcast episode highlights the importance of realizing your worth and what you want from a job and shifting to get what you need – whether that...
This podcast episode discusses the role the Public Health AmeriCorps has played in addressing the public health workforce challenges, the successes and chall...
This podcast discusses diverse public health career paths to enhance understanding, skills, and networks for a broad audience.
This webpage emphasizes the benefits of becoming a member of APHA as an early career professional, providing access to a supportive community, professional d...
This resource is a job site for public health professionals, offering a career guidance center for employers and job seekers.
This resource represents a data source on Local Health Departments (LHDs). The study describes the funding, staffing, governance, and activities of LHDs acro...
This website outlines Racial Justice Competencies for Public Health Professionals developed by the Public Health Training Centers, in partnership with the Na...
During this meeting, The Council on Linkages heard from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and three other Council on Linkages me...
This opinion piece discusses what Congress can do to ensure the U.S.
This edition of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice includes several articles discussing the needs and interests of the public health workfo...
This set of ten interactive case studies aims to bring recommendations from Public Health Forward: Modernizing the U.S. Public Health System to implemen...
PH WINS is the first and only nationally representative source of data on the people that make up the governmental public health workforce. It captures their...
This report documents the key findings of the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS). The survey provides data on workforce demogr...
The Public Health 101 Series provides an introduction to public health and covers the sciences essential to public health practice. The fundamental scientifi...
PublicHealthCareers.org promotes careers and jobs in U.S. state and territorial governmental public health agencies. Users can search for public health job o...
The Public Health Learning Network is an active consortium of public health educators, practitioners, and thought leaders that aims to advance public health ...
The first in the CDC Foundation’s Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health series, this summit brought together more than 1,200 participant...
This brief details an analysis, informed by the COVID-19 pandemic, that was completed to estimate the number of state and local public health department staf...
This report tracks federal, state, and local investment in public health and how underinvestment in public health programs impacted the COVID-19 response, ex...
This report discusses how investments in public health not only improve the health of society but also advance equity and foster economic and climate resilie...
This blog summarizes trends most likely to impact the future public health workforce and how public health leaders can best prepare for them. Some of the tre...
This toolkit is a first step for any organization to implement Equity Diversity Inclusion or E-D-I practices. Using this toolkit, board and staff members can...
Using findings from the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), this brief describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on...
This webinar explores issues related to the multi-sector workforce for population health improvement, including strengthening and supporting the workforce, a...
This interactive dashboard presents key demographic characteristics of trainees who received training through the TRAIN Learning Network as well as the commu...
This article from the president of Grant Makers in Health acts as a call to action for the philanthropic field to help support the needs of workers and addre...
This post provides an overview of the ten state public health policies that the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) identified as t...
This webpage outlines the COVID-19 Action Fund for Africa (CAF-Africa), a collaboration of 30+ organizations for the purpose of supplying community health wo...
This webpage is a collection of resources that can be used to help public health workers build resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, including fac...
This piece outlines a national strategy to address health workforce needs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This fact sheet covers the implications of preemption for important public health priorities in areas such as affordable and fair housing; food and beverages...
This paper was prepared as part of Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19. It covers the effects of preemption on economic recovery, how preemption impacts ex...
This blog post introduces the Satcher Health Leadership Institute’s
This webpage outlines the Association for Public Health Laboratories’ COVID-19 response activities. It links critical resources, including COVID-19 la...
This website page outlines steps for stopping workforce violence in public health, and provides resources and factsheets.
Meaningful Work & Wealth as a Vital Condition
TRAIN is a learning platform that provides access to a national catalog of trainings developed by government agencies, universities, professional association...
This webpage provides information on BEAM, an online certificate program in the field of financial management. It offers key statistics to the field of finan...
This article discusses rebuilding the U.S. Public Health system with a new generation of highly trained, diverse public health professionals. It calls on cur...
This article advocates for the strengthening of the public health workforce. It provides background and contextual information on the workforce itself, refer...
This article provides information on Biden’s public health workforce plan and the long term public health goals of the administration.
This article highlights five leadership skills that public health managers require and recommend training programs to ensure they have them.
This podcast talks about what the pandemic has taught about urgently needed investments in public health workforce.
This webpage provides links to editorials, commentaries, research reports, and practice commentaries that appeared in the March/April 2019 edition of the Jou...
This webpage advocates for a renewed approach to developing public health workforce in the US. Information is provided on an interview conducted by Partners ...
This infographic shows that creativity and innovation in public health can improve moral, retention, and productivity.
This infographic suggests that composition of numbers of workers, competency of workers, contextual environment and work environment are the factors affectin...
This webpage provides information on the current state of the public health workforce in the US. The data presented is stratified to reflect geographic and d...
This webpage provides continuing education material, such as courses, reports, and pamphlets, aimed at developing and strengthening the public health workfor...
This webpage provides information on the status of the public health workforce in rural communities. Additional detail and context is added in a Q&A sect...
This webpage provides information on the need for concerted recruitment and retention activities for public health workers in rural communities. Additional d...
This webpage describes public health workforce needs and steps required to prepare for the future.
This report from the Public Health Workforce Summit advocates for and reinforces the need to develop the public health workforce in the United States. It pro...
This webpage provides information on the training and education needs of the public health workforce in rural communities. Additional detail and context is a...
This webpage provides information on core competency tools needed by public health practitioners. It links to a tool allowing assessment and self-assessment ...
This webpage provides information on a model of public health service provision which encompasses ten essential services. Links are provided to background an...
This website provides new resources, strategies and recommendations for strengthening the public health workforce.
This webpage provides information on the Public Health Learning Forum and its advocacy for the development of the public health workforce in the US. Informat...
This topic guide provides resources that identify different CHW models, demonstrate effective CHW programs, and outline the issues and challenges to the deve...
This report provides synthesized recommendations regarding the core components needed to build a modern and more effective U.S. public health system capable ...
This webpage introduces a report on the decision-making process of public health workers. The page provides contextual overview, as well as links to the repo...
This report provides information on the state of the public health workforce in the United States. It also conveys information from a needs assessment conduc...
This report discusses a modernized public health system that provides a framework of practical, prioritized, and bipartisan actions for policymakers and publ...
This report was completed to better understand current weaknesses and challenges that are impacting the US public health system’s infrastructure and t...
This report provides an analysis of ways in which public health skills can be used to increase its effectiveness. This serves as a sector analysis with the g...
This webpage provides information on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s approach and action plan to public health workforce development. ...
This interactive data visualization provides information from the latest edition of PH WINS (conducted in 2017) in five sections: demographic data, retention...
This article analyzes the nature and component pieces of diversity within the public health workforce in the United States. It provides key statistical infor...
This journal article provides novel information on the state of the U.S. public health workforce, using data from the Public Health Workforce Interests and N...
This journal article provides information on succession planning in the United States in state health agencies.
This paper presents a new public health workforce taxonomy and explains the process in which it was developed.
This journal article highlights recent accomplishments and important areas for future attention to continue the path toward the public health workforce of th...
This resource outlines the vision, mission, and goals of the National Consortium for Public Health Workforce Development. Some of these goals include advanci...
This guide describes strategic skills for the governmental public health workforce, recommendations for workforce development, and potential actions that can...
This webpage provides information and resources for self-care within the scope of maternal and child health. It also provides details on various aspects of m...
The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Digital Library provides access to current evidence to support State Title V programs, community agencies, educators, stu...
This website provides learning material to foster competency-based learning and leadership in the field of maternal and child health. Various links are provi...
This webpage provides a set of resources and learning material for public health workforce professional development. The material provided aims at increasing...
This article provides information on the connection between discrimination and public
This video highlights the mental health impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the public health workforce, including top-level results from a new CDC study...
This audio recording includes discussion about the state of our public health workforce with Jennifer Horney of the University of Delaware and Lisa Macon Har...
In this webinar, panelists speak to the role of community health workers as trusted messengers on the front lines of primary care systems during the COVID-19...
This journal article highlights how individual and organizational aspects of the COVID-19 response impacted mental health, as well as strengths, weaknesses, ...
This article discusses the interdisciplinary functions of public health, the effects of legacy systems and policies on the sector’s response to COVID-...
This topic guide provides an overview of rural public health agencies, including FAQs, resources, funding and opportunities, events, and models and innovatio...
This chapter of The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century explores the state of governmental public health infrastructure, including the r...
This article discusses the burnout crisis among frontline medical staff and public health workers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The story also discus...
This library provides resources and trainings to help public health workers build resilience.
This toolkit of tools and resources is intended to support the growing workforce of case investigators and contact tracers. It is organized into two main cat...
This report is intended to help policymakers prepare for future public health emergencies based on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides te...
This article highlights the importance of and need for reliable, high-quality COVID-19 surveillance data. It provides a detailed chart of suggestions on how ...
This article discusses how standard economic evaluations of vaccines only consider limited, direct health and cost benefits and proposes adopting a broader s...
This article explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the future of the public health field, and discusses the need to prepare the increasingly ...
This playbook from the Community-Based Workforce Alliance was developed to facilitate the conceptualization and operationalization of community health worker...
This website is intended to help provide local community-based workforces and other caregivers with up-to-date, tailored, and sharable tools to communicate a...
This toolkit serves as a reference for community-based organizations and other advocates that wish to secure funding to expand the public health workforce in...
This website aims to raise awareness and amplify promising practices in building vaccine confidence and equitably vaccinating the health care workforce. It i...
This report presents seven practical steps that businesses can take to strengthen partnerships and improve the health of their employees, communities, and th...
This webpage serves as a guide to help state and local leaders and allies advance urgent health equity priorities as part of COVID-19 response and recovery e...
Physical and mental well-being starts with access to fresh air and water, nutritious food, and the security of a stable home. People also need healthy relati...