The State of the US Governmental Public Health Workforce, 2014–2017

Sellers, Katie; Leider, Jonathon P.; Gould, Edwin W.; Castrucci, Brian C.; Beck, Angela J.; Bogaert, Kyle; Coronado, Fátima; Shah, Gulzar H.; Yeager, Valerie A.; Beitsch, Leslie M.; Erwin, Paul Campbell

doi:10.2105/ajph.2019.305011

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“…The 2016 WHO report on a Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health highlighted global gaps in the public and global health workforce, and set concrete goals for countries to coordinate and implement an intersectoral health workforce agenda ("Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030," 2016). Although nearly 20 million health workers were short worldwide, critical shortages were equally seen in filled public health positions in the United States and beyond (Sellers et al, 2019).…”

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Cracks in the System: The Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Public Health Systems

Tulenko¹,

Vervoort

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly wrought havoc on the world, exposing the gaps in public health systems of countries that were previously considered most prepared for infectious disease outbreaks. Notably, despite being ranked highest on the Global Health Security Index, the United States has been severely hit with nearly two million confirmed cases and one hundred thousand deaths by the end of May 2020. In addition to the public health fragmentation from the federal to the state level and lagging regulations, early reports highlight substantial socioeconomic disparities and health system barriers contributing to the spread and impact of the pandemic in the United States. In this review, we explore the impact of COVID-19 on public health systems by assessing systems through the lens of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Ten Essential Public Health Services. Building on prepandemic and COVID-19 observations and lessons, we propose recommendations moving forward to prepare for future waves and other disease outbreaks.

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Cracks in the System: The Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Public Health Systems

Tulenko¹,

Vervoort

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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“…Because strategic skill-building occurs on the job (Koo & Miner, 2010; Sellers et al, 2019), the goal of developing these competency models is for public health agencies, and partners across the system, to use the public health law competency models to help address complex public health problems. The competency statements included in each model can be useful for crafting position descriptions and providing guidance for organizational performance appraisals or personal benchmarks.…”

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Exploring the Development of Three Law-Based Competency Models for Public Health Practitioners

Ransom

Yassine

2019

JSBHS

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As public health promotion and protection become increasingly complex and integrated into various fields, public health law is emerging as an important tool for public health professionals. To ensure that public health professionals are adequately trained public health law, public health law-related competencies should to be integrated into educational and other programming. This article provides three competency models developed by the Public Health Law Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: (a) the public health emergency law competency model, (b) the public health law competency model, and (c) the legal epidemiology competency model. These competency models provide a foundation upon which public health law curricula can be developed for governmental, nongovernmental, and academic public health practitioners. Such standardization of public health law curricula will ameliorate not only the training, but also selection and evaluation of public health practitioners, as well as better align public health training with national public health efforts.

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“…Due in part to the 2008 economic downturn, the public health workforce declined by more than 50,000 full-time employees between 2008 and 2016 [1]. In addition to these declines, 22% of current public health employees are planning to retire by 2023, leading to concerns about the stability of the public health workforce for years to come [3]. One approach to addressing existing workforce shortages and fueling the future workforce pipeline has been through the development of explicit linkages between academic institutions and public health agencies [4,5].…”

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Public Health Student Response to COVID-19

2020

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To understand the role public health students play in response to COVID-19 despite cuts in funding for graduate student emergency response programs (GSERPs), we reviewed the websites of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, Council on Education in Public Health, and individual schools and programs to identify student participation in COVID-19 response activities. Thirty schools and programs of public health are supporting public health agencies in response to COVID-19, primarily through the provision of surge capacity (n = 20, 66.7%), contact tracing (n = 19, 63.3%), and training (n = 11, 36.7%). The opportunity to participate in formal and informal applied public health experiences like practica, service-learning, and field placements can benefit both public health students and agency partners. Although recent publications have identified gaps in academic public health response to COVID-19, in part due to the cessation of funding for workforce development and other university-based programs in public health preparedness, schools and programs of public health continue to support public health agencies. Future funding should explicitly link public health students to applied public health activities in ways that can be measured to document impacts on public health emergency response and the future public health workforce.

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The State of the US Governmental Public Health Workforce, 2014–2017

Cited by 84 publications

References 28 publications

Cracks in the System: The Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Public Health Systems

Cracks in the System: The Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Public Health Systems

Exploring the Development of Three Law-Based Competency Models for Public Health Practitioners

Public Health Student Response to COVID-19

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