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Workforce Development

Workforce development activities and resources for the public health workforce.

Education and Training

  • SOPHE Internship Opportunities icon - (Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE))  - This document describes the types of activities that SOPHE interns are involved with.
  • SOPHE Student Scholarships icon - (Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE))  - This award provides conference support to full-time undergraduate and graduate level students to attend the SOPHE Midyear Scientific Conference, or Annual Meeting or Health Education Advocacy Summit.

Continuing Education and Training

  • APHL Education and Training Department - (Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) U.S.)  - APHL provides training opportunities outside of the traditional programs offered under the CDC cooperative agreement.
  • Credentials for Success - (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)  - The Credentials for success is a distance learning program for Georgia's public health practitioners.
  • Epidemic Intelligence Service - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is the country's critical epidemiology training service, combating the causes of major epidemics.
  • Free Online CDC Environmental Health Courses Available - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Environmental Health Association (NEHA))  - CDC's Environmental Health Services Branch, in collaboration with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), is providing three free online training courses for EH practitioners and students: Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response, National Environmental Public Health Performance Standards (NEPHPS), and Biology and Control of Insects and Rodents. NEHA is providing automatic continuing education credit to NEHA-credentialed individuals for those successful passing each of the courses and course completion certificates for all others. Additional continuing education courses for EH practitioners are available at PHPartners.org: Environmental Health.
  • Kansas WALD Center - (University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita)  - The Kansas Public Health Workforce and Leadership Development (WALD) Center is a web-based public health education, training, and research center. The WALD Center makes use of technology to foster social capital and increase workforce capacity among Kansas's public health workers.
  • National Laboratory Training Network - (Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) U.S., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The National Laboratory Training Network (NLTN) is a collaborative training system of the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its mission is to improve laboratory practice of public health significance through quality continuing education.
  • Project Public Health Ready - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO))  - Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is a collaborative activity between NACCHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Project aims to fully integrate Local health departments (LHDs) into the response community and prepared to respond to any health and medical emergency in partnership with community-based organizations.
  • Public Health Informatics Training - (American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The purpose of the program is to strengthen the breadth and depth of the public health workforce by providing training in public health informatics. As a first step AMIA will be accepting applications from leaders in national, state or local public health agencies interested in participating in informatics training.
  • Public Health Training Centers - (Health Resources and Services Administration) - Public Health Training Centers are designed to assess the learning needs of the public health workforce and provide training to meet them
  • TRAIN - (Public Health Foundation (PHF))  - TRAIN is a learning resource for professionals who protect the public's health. A free service of the Public Health Foundation, www.train.org is part of the newly expanded TrainingFinder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network (TRAIN).

Fellowships with Workforce Development Focus

  • CSTE/CDC Applied Epidemiology Fellowship Program - (Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE))  - CSTE, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), has established this Fellowship to train recent graduates in the expanding field of applied epidemiology.
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Laboratory Fellowships - (Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) U.S.)  - The Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Laboratory Fellowship Program, sponsored by APHL and CDC, trains and prepares scientists for careers in public health laboratories and supports public health initiatives related to infectious disease research. The EID Advanced Laboratory Training Fellowship is a one-year program designed for bachelor's or master's level scientists, with emphasis on the practical application of technologies, methodologies and practices related to emerging infectious diseases. The EID Laboratory Research Fellowship is a two-year program designed for doctoral level (PhD, MD or DVM) scientists to conduct high-priority infectious diseases research.
  • Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) is a 2-year applied fellowship for persons with at least a master's degree, training and experience in a health-related profession and information or computer science or technology.
  • SOPHE / ATSDR Student Fellowship in Environmental Health Promotion icon - (Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE))  - This fellowship is designed to recognize, assist and train students working on research or practice-based projects in environmental health education/health promotion or environmental justice from the perspective of health education or the behavioral sciences.

Information from/about Schools of Public Health

  • MPH Core Competency Development Project - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - ASPH, as representative of the 37 graduate schools of public health, which provide approximately 85% of the public health graduates in the U.S., has identified core master's in public health competencies for students upon graduation.

Webinars

  • Advanced Practice Centers - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO))  - NACCHO and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Public Health Preparedness host a series of webinars yearly featuring eight training programs. The live online seminars are designed for NACCHO members, public health preparedness staff, and anyone interested in public health preparedness issues.
  • New York Consortium for Emergency Preparedness Continuing Education - (New York Consortium for Emergency Preparedness Continuing Education (NYCEPCE) USA)  - The mission of the NYCEPCE is to extend and strengthen the competency of health professionals in New York State and New York City to respond effectively to emergency events of all kinds.
  • PHF Learning Resource Center - (Public Health Foundation (PHF))  - Quality training materials for public health, healthcare, and allied health professionals at an affordable price. The materials include information in such areas as preparedness; immunization; epidemiology; diabetes; infectious diseases; performance management; asthma and allergies; and health disparities.
  • Rapid Response Training: The Role of Public Health in a Multi-Agency Response to Avian Influenza - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE))  - Course materials presented at regional trainings provide a standardized curriculum to state and local public health responders about how to identify and control human infections and illness associated with avian influenza A (H5N1). Users can download free course materials including presentations, case studies, and tabletop exercises and adapt them to meet the training and preparedness needs of individual state health agencies.
  • Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health - (University of Pittsburgh)  - Supercourse is a global repository of lectures on public health and prevention targeting educators across the world. Supercourse has a network of over 43435 scientists in 175 countries who are sharing for free a library of 3418 lectures in 26 languages.
  • Surge Capacity — Education and Training for a Qualified Workforce - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is holding a series of Web-assisted conferences on bioterrorism and the health care system. Archived online, each audioconference on bioterrorism is also distilled into an issue brief. This brief examines education and training efforts that are used to create and maintain the readiness of a qualified workforce to respond to a sudden increase in surge capacity needs.
  • Workforce Solutions Webinars - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO))  - NACCHO offers online webinars/webcasts which feature local health department staff speaking on a variety of issues.

Legislative Action

  • Public Health Preparedness Workforce Development Act of 2007 (Bill # S.1882) - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO))  - NACCHO serves as an advocate for the bill, which would amend the Public Health Service Act to establish various programs for the recruitment and retention of public health workers and eliminate critical public health workforce shortages in Federal, State, local, and tribal public health agencies.
  • Support for Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act icon - (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO))  - ASTHO supports $10 million in funding for the newly created Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) public health workforce programs.

Meetings, Summits, Councils, or Conferences

  • Academic Health Department Program - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - An Academic Health Department (AHD) is an organized partnership between schools of public health (SPH) and health departments creating a dynamic academic-practice collaboration, which effectively pools assets of both institutions. The creation of AHDs maximizes resources and strengthens the important connection between academia and practice.
  • ASPH Practice Coordinators - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - The council serves to advise the deans and engage the faculty and member schools on public health practice activities. It provides a forum for the discussion of policies and programs to promote, improve and strengthen public health practice.
  • Continuing Professional Education Council - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - The Council on Continuing Professional Education serves to advise on policy matters regarding continuing education activities and workforce development at the Schools of Public Health.
  • New Council on Linkages Website Includes Information on Updating the Core Competencies and Mapping - For 16 years the Council Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice, a coalition of representatives from 17 national organizations, has worked to further academic/practice collaboration to assure a well-trained, competent workforce and a strong, evidence-based public health infrastructure. After a one year hiatus, the Council is back with new funding provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New projects include working to update the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals and mapping the public health workforce pipeline.
  • Virginia Recruitment and Retention Collaborative Team - (Virginia Department of Health (VDH) USA)  - The mission of the Virginia Recruitment and Retention Collaborative team is to establish and enhance collaborative efforts in partnership with stakeholders to deliver improvements in recruitment processes and retention systems for health care providers with an emphasis on medically under served areas in Virginia.

International Efforts

  • Africa Health Workforce Observatory - (World Health Organization (WHO))  - The Africa Health Workforce Observatory promotes, develops and sustains the knowledge base for human resources for health in the African region to provide evidence for informed health policy decisions in order to strengthen health systems to provide more effective and efficient health service delivery.
  • Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH) - (World Health Organization (WHO))  - The Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH) is a response to international recognition of the need for global and regional action to strengthen country planning and action on health workforce system. As of January 2007 it has 15 members including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, PNG, Philippines, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. There are 5 priority actions for the first two years including: HRH advocacy, information monitoring, capacity strengthening, knowledge generation, and technical coordination.
  • European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies - (World Health Organization (WHO))  - The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe.
  • Global Forum on Human Resources for Health - (Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA))  - The first Global Forum on Human Resources for Health was held in Kampala, Uganda from 2-7 March, 2008. It called for immediate and sustained action to resolve the critical shortage of health workers around the world.
  • Global Health Workforce Alliance - (Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA))  - The Global Health Workforce Alliance is a partnership dedicated to identifying and implementing solutions to the health workforce crisis. It brings together a variety of actors, including national governments, civil society, finance institutions, workers, international agencies, academic institutions and professional associations. The Alliance is hosted and administered by the World Health Organization.
  • Health Worker Migration Policy Initiative - (Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA))  - The Health Worker Migration Policy Initiative is dedicated to monitoring the health worker flows and issue recommendations to WHO for an International Code of Practice.
  • Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative - (Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA))  - The Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative (HWAI) is dedicated to keeping human resources for health at the top of the agenda at the country, regional and international level. Chaired by Eric Friedman (PHR), this initiative's purpose is to make the case for the policies and sustained investments necessary to develop and empower a health workforce capable of delivering on health goals.
  • Latin America and Caribbean Observatory of Human Resources in Health - (World Health Organization (WHO))  - The Latin America and Caribbean Observatory of Human Resources in Health operates in numerous countries of the Region as a strategy to promote the production, analysis, and dissemination of information in Human Resources and decision-making with regard to policies, regulation, and management of the Health Workforce, promoting participation of the educational, health services and corporate stakeholders.
  • Scaling up Education & Training Task Force - (Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA))  - The Scaling up Education & Training Task Force is a technical working group that is looking at finding evidence of previous scale-up initiatives around the world and how best to replicate these examples on a larger scale.
  • Task Force on Financing Human Resources for Health - (Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA))  - A new international task force that will address how to finance the scaling up of the health workforce in the developing world. The group of experts will focus on helping governments identify their funding needs, finding ways to make more money available and on advising countries how best to spend it.

New Workers Development Programs

  • APHL Recognition Program - (Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) U.S.)  - APHL's Awards Program highlights some of the outstanding achievements in laboratory science and creative approaches being made to solve today's public health challenges. The award listing includes the Thomas E. Maxson Education, Training and Workforce Development Award.
  • Center for Health Policy at Columbia University - (Columbia University School of Nursing USA)  - The Center for Health Policy works with leading researchers at the Columbia University School of Nursing to build a competent workforce for successful public health systems and practice.
  • Dental Student Community Partnership icon - (University of Illinois at Chicago School of Dentistry USA)  - The curriculum at University of Illinois at Chicago prepares an oral healthcare workforce that is competent and committed to conquering the oral diseases of vulnerable populations. The dental students now spend 60 days a year in a public health setting.
  • Environmental Health Traineeship - (Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) U.S.)  - The program provides travel for current laboratory staff to attend relevant conferences or trainings, or short-term (1-6 week) specialized training in environmental health technology and testing methods at another state health department, NCEH/CDC, or other state or federal agencies (such as ATSDR, EPA, NIEHS or NIOSH).
  • Epidemiology Elective Program - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The Epidemiology Program Office (EPO) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers an elective in epidemiology for senior medical and veterinary students. The purpose of the elective is to provide an introduction to preventive medicine, public health and the principles of applied epidemiology.
  • HPPI Grants Led by Schools of Public Health - (Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF))  - In 2000, the third cycle of Health Professions Partnership Initiative funding, public health became an additional focus of the HPPI grants, and five accredited schools of public health were awarded funding specifically to lead Public Health HPPI grants (PH-HPPI) to increase career awareness and integrate public health in the curricula of students (K-12 to post-graduate), and the current health professions workforce.
  • National PHTC Network Publications - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - In coordination with ASPH, the National Public Health Training Centers Network develops publications, with active participation of the Centers, to educate practitioners and policymakers on the innovative and successful foundational workforce training that are conducted across the 14 PHTC.

Leadership Training

  • Annual Kennedy School Leadership Retreat icon - (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO))  - Week-long training at Harvard JFK School of Government. Focuses on managerial approaches, legislative strategies, working with the media, crisis management, etc. Uses case-study method.
  • CDC Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute (EPHLI) is a 1-year program of seminars and workshops, special projects, and individual study for practicing environmental public health professionals. CDC will pay all allowable and approved costs associated with participation in the institute.
  • Management Academy for Public Health - (University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Public Health)  - The Management Academy for Public Health prepares teams of health professionals for new management challenges in community health. MAPH is a nine-month executive education course customized for health managers in the public health system.
  • National Public Health Leadership Institute - (University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Public Health)  - The new PHLI is a one-year leadership development program for high-potential leaders with a commitment to leading in their own organizations and communities, but also leading system change on the national scene.
  • Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The CDC Preventive Medicine Residency (PMR) is a 12-month program meeting the Practicum Year training requirements for certification by the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. The PMR is designed to prepare physicians for future leadership roles in public health at federal, state, and local levels.
  • Public Health Leadership Development Programs - (National Public Health Leadership Development Network)  - A site for exploring leadership institutes and programs dedicated to meeting the local grassroots needs by developing and enhancing individual and organizational leadership and management for improving and promoting the health of communities
  • Public Health Prevention Service - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The Public Health Prevention Service (PHPS) is a 3-year on-the-job national service and training program offered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for master's level health professionals. The program focuses on public health program management and provides Prevention Specialists with experience in program planning, implementation, and evaluation through specialized hands-on training and mentorship at CDC and state and local health agencies.
  • Regional Public Health Leadership Development Programs - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Public Health Leadership Development Network)  - A list of contact information for several regional Public Health Leadership Institutes, which offer fellowship programs to promote leadership skill development in the public health workforce.
  • State Health Officials Mentoring Program icon - (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO))  - Yearlong formal relationship. New state health official (SHO) paired with experienced colleague (current SHO/recent alum) based on agency, professional, and personal similarities. Monthly confidential calls. Site visit from mentor to new SHO's agency.
  • Survive and Thrive: Roadmap for New Local Health Officials - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO))  - Learning opportunity designed to enhance the skills of new local health officials. Fellows gain practical tools and tactics to help engage elected officials and community partners; manage strategic planning and human, financial, and information resources; and resolve challenges unique to local health officials.

Tools/Resources

  • Career Resource Guide for Uniformed Services Environmental Health Practitioners icon - (Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) U.S.)  - The Career Resource Guide for Uniformed Services Environmental Health Practitioners was designed and created by the Uniformed Services Environmental Public Health Careers Work Group. The primary goal of the work group is to assist Uniformed Services environmental health practitioners who are retiring or otherwise leaving active duty service in transitioning to postmilitary careers.
  • Centralized Application Service (CAS) - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - SOPHAS, the Schools of Public Health Application Service, was launched in July 2006 and is now available at: www.sophas.org. SOPHAS was developed by ASPH and a CAS Advisory Committee which is comprised of admissions directors and associate deans from the majority of schools of public health.
  • Institute for Health Improvement's (IHI) Public Health Page - (Public Health Foundation (PHF))  - PHF has partnered with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to create a public health page on IHI's site. This page provides access to a special collection of resources and content from IHI's work in health care quality improvement that can help public health leaders and staff bring quality improvement to their programs and organizations. This page was made possible by a PHF grant from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of the Partners for Information Access project.
  • International Centre for Human Resources in Nursing - (Florence Nightingale International Foundation (FNIF), International Council of Nurses (ICN))  - The International Centre for Human Resources in Nursing (ICHRN) was established in 2006 by the International Council of Nurses and its premier foundation, the Florence Nightingale International Foundation. The Centre is dedicated to strengthening the nursing workforce globally through the development, ongoing monitoring and dissemination of comprehensive information, standards and tools on nursing human resources policy, management, research and practice.
  • NACCHO Model Practices Database - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO))  - The Model Practice Database, is an online, searchable collection of practices across public health areas. This database allows you to benefit from your colleagues' experiences, to learn what works, and to ensure that resources are used wisely on effective programs that have been implemented with good results.
  • Public Health Case Studies Resource Center - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - The ASPH Public Health Case Studies Resource Center is built for both public health academics and professionals to post and access case studies contributed by schools and programs of public health.
  • The Public Health Memory Jogger II - (Public Health Foundation (PHF))  - The new Public Health version of Goal QPC's popular quick reference guide, Memory Jogger II, contains 22 tools for quality improvement with easy-to-follow how-to instructions, tips, and illustrations specific to public health.
  • Quality Improvement Tools to Identify Root Causes of Public Health Problems icon - (Public Health Foundation (PHF))  - These presentation slides are from a 90-minute workshop by Stacy Baker, Public Health Foundation, at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2007 annual conference. The presentation explains how quality improvement concepts and tools can be applied to accelerate problem solving, focus on root causes, and fully engage public health teams.
  • Task Shifting: rational redistribution of tasks among health workforce teams icon - (World Health Organization (WHO))  - There is international consensus that without urgent improvements in the performance of health systems, including significant strengthening of human resources for health, the world will fail to meet the Millennium Development Goals for health. The recommendations and guidelines offer an approach that offers long-term potential for all primary health-care services and for overall health systems strengthening.
  • Workforce Development Projects Page - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - This page lists many applicative projects and publications relating to workforce development.

Resources for Children or Teachers

  • Disease Detectives - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - Disease Detectives provides students an opportunity to hone their skills as science sleuths by learning the scientific method employed by epidemiologists—or disease detectives.
  • Pathways to Public Health - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - Provides information and resources for talented young people interested in exploring careers in public health, and for the teachers, school counselors, and others who work with them.
  • Public Health - Science in Action (Video) - (University of Iowa College of Public Health USA)  - Students can learn about a wide variety of professional opportunities in the field of public health from the video, Public Health - Science in Action, produced by the University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory with support from the UMPHTC.
  • Science Ambassador Program - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The Science Ambassador program invites science teachers from middle and high schools nationwide to compete for the chance to collaborate with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientists on epidemiologic-based lesson plans. Together, CDC and science teachers craft relevant and up-to-date lessons that engage students by bringing discussions and activities regarding real public health problems into the classroom. By introducing students to public health at a young age, science teachers are able to nurture and foster future public health professionals.
  • Youth Health Service Corps - (Connecticut Area Health Education Center, Connecticut Department of Public Health (CDPH))  - The Youth Health Service Corps is an award winning health career recruitment program that trains and places diverse high school students as volunteers in health care agencies.

Workforce Projects/Research

  • Innovative Environmental Public Health Workforce Practices Project - (National Environmental Health Association (NEHA))  - The goal of the Innovative Environmental Public Health Workforce Practices Project is to recognize, collect and widely disseminate innovative practices in order to build the nation's capacity to recruit, train, and strengthen the Environmental Public Health Workforce.
  • Partnership for Public Service - (Partnership for Public Service)  - The Partnership for Public Service works to revitalize our federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works.
  • Public Health Laboratory Interoperability Project icon - (Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) U.S.)  - The Public Health Laboratory Interoperability project (PHLIP) will foster collaboration in the areas of information technology and laboratory science, with the immediate goal of developing, piloting and deploying viable IT architecture options and tools for the exchange of electronic laboratory data at all levels of public health laboratories. The collaboration is intended to extend beyond the founding partners (APHL and CDC) to include all relevant public and private entities.
  • Public Health Worker Recruitment and Retention - (Public Health Foundation (PHF))  - In an attempt to strengthen the public health workforce, both in numbers and in quality, the Council is working to map the pipeline for public health professionals, charting how, when, and where people enter and leave governmental public health agencies.
  • Workforce Development Program - (National Environmental Health Association (NEHA))  - NEHA, through a funding agreement with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), is continuing to work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Environmental Health (CDC/NCEH) to support efforts already underway to build capacity and infrastructure of the overall public health system.

Competencies and Standards

  • Applied Epidemiology Competencies - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE))  - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) developed the Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies (Applied Epidemiology Competencies or AECs for short) to improve the practice of epidemiology within the public health system.
  • Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals - (Public Health Foundation (PHF))  - With new funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Council is undertaking a project to revise and update the Core Competencies, based on recommendations from Council members, as well as the public.
  • Environmental Public Health Performance Standards - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a draft of Environmental Public Health Performance Standards, which complement the National Public Health Performance Standards.
  • Genomic Competencies for the Public Health Workforce - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - The purpose of this activity is to present essential public health competencies that incorporate specific aspects of genomics and present the required core knowledge, skills, abilities, and crosscutting functions related to public health programs.
  • Project Public Health Ready: Workforce Competency Development - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO))  - Public health workers must be able to identify their roles in emergencies and demonstrate competency in basic public health emergency preparedness and response functions. Project Public Health Ready competencies reflect the knowledge, skills, and abilities useful in real-world public health practice.

Literature and Research Reports

  • 2007 State Public Health Workforce Survey Results icon - (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO))  - New data from a survey by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) shows that the public health workforce is shrinking, the pool of new public health professionals is limited, and states are at a disadvantage in competing for the few workers available.
  • APHL Diversity Survey icon - (Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) U.S.)  - APHL conducted a survey of their workforce and analyzed it according to race and gender and age. Observations and recommendations using these findings are also presented in the document.
  • Developing Leaders in the Public Health Workforce icon - (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO))  - This report showcases the variety of initiatives across the nation focused on developing the next generation of leaders in the public health workforce.
  • National Assessment of Epidemiologic Capacity icon - (Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE))  - Deploy Date: Every 2 years; recently completed 2006 report Audience: State Epidemiologists and senior epidemiologists Measures: current resources, training needs, current capacity, staffing needs and enumeration of epidemiologists in each jurisdiction
  • Public Health Training Centers: Six Years Progress in Public Health Workforce Development icon - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH))  - A review of the Public Health Training Centers (PHTC), a program developed for the purpose of improving the nation's public health system by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial and leadership competence of the current and future public health workforce. It emphasizes development of the existing workforce as a foundation for improving the nation's public health infrastructure, and for achieving Healthy People 2010 Objectives, a set of health objectives for the nation to achieve over the next decade.