The state of the US public health workforce: ongoing challenges and future directions

JP Leider, VA Yeager, C Kirkland… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Between the 2009 Great Recession and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US state
and local governmental public health workforce lost 40,000 jobs. Tens of thousands of …

Postgraduate employment outcomes of undergraduate and graduate public health students: a scoping review

H Krasna, O Gershuni, K Sherrer… - Public Health …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives A key goal of schools and programs of public health is to prepare graduates for
careers in the public health workforce after graduation, but are they achieving this goal? We …

The Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS 2017): an expanded perspective on the state health agency workforce

K Bogaert, BC Castrucci, E Gould… - Journal of Public …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To characterize the state of the governmental public health workforce among
State Health Agency-Central Office (SHA-CO) staff across the United States. Design: The …

Labour market competition for public health graduates in the United States: A comparison of workforce taxonomies with job postings before and during the COVID‐19 …

H Krasna, K Czabanowska, A Beck… - … Journal of Health …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A strong public health workforce (PHW) is needed to respond to COVID‐19 and public
health (PH) issues worldwide. However, classifying, enumerating, and planning the PHW is …

Public health workforce gaps, impacts, and improvement strategies from COVID-19

C Kirkland, K Oldfield-Tabbert, H Karnik, J Orr… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The public health workforce has been instrumental in protecting residents against
population health threats. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of the …

First-destination outcomes for 2015–2018 public health graduates: focus on employment

CM Plepys, H Krasna, JP Leider… - … journal of public …, 2021 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To improve understanding of the future public health workforce by analyzing first-
destination employment outcomes of public health graduates. Methods. We assessed …

Trends in degree conferrals, degree-associated debt, and employment outcomes among undergraduate public health degree graduates, 2001‒2020

JP Leider, E Burke, RHN Nguyen… - … journal of public …, 2023 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To characterize the trends in degree conferrals, degree-associated debt, and
employment outcomes among undergraduate public health degree (UGPHD) graduates …

Factors that influence the recruitment and retention of nurses in public health agencies

VA Yeager, JM Wisniewski - Public Health Reports, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Given challenges to recruiting nurses to public health and the growth in national
policies focused on population health, it is crucial that public health agencies develop …

Determinants of workplace perceptions among federal, state, and local public health staff in the US, 2014 to 2017

JP Leider, K Sellers, J Owens-Young… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background The governmental public health workforce in the United States comprises
almost 300,000 staff at federal, state, and local levels. The workforce is poised for …

The impact of student debt on career choices among doctor of public health graduates in the United States: a descriptive analysis

C Park, E Coles - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: As gaps in the public health workforce grow in the wake of the COVID-19
pandemic, graduates of the schools of public health, especially Doctors of Public Health …