[HTML][HTML] 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 …

The exodus of state and local public health employees: separations started before and continued throughout COVID-19: study examines state and local public health …

JP Leider, BC Castrucci, M Robins, R Hare Bork… - Health …, 2023 - healthaffairs.org
Understanding the size and composition of the state and local governmental public health
workforce in the United States is critical for promoting and protecting the health of the public …

Workplace violence and the mental health of public health workers during COVID-19

HM Tiesman, SA Hendricks, DM Wiegand… - American journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health workers were at an increased
risk for violence and harassment due to their public health work and experienced adverse …

US adults' beliefs about harassing or threatening public health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic

RJ Topazian, EE McGinty, H Han, AS Levine… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The rise in attacks on public health officials has weakened the public health
workforce and complicated COVID-19 mitigation efforts. Objective To examine the share of …

[HTML][HTML] PH WINS 2021 methodology report

M Robins, JP Leider, K Schaffer… - Journal of Public …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
ABSTRACT Context: The Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS)
was fielded in 2014 and 2017 and is the largest survey of the governmental public health …

[HTML][HTML] Turnover, COVID-19, and reasons for leaving and staying within governmental public health

JP Leider, GH Shah, VA Yeager, J Yin… - Journal of Public …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Design: Using national-level data from the 2017 and 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests
and Needs Surveys, bivariate analyses of intent to leave were conducted using a Rao-Scott …

[HTML][HTML] Usability and credibility of a COVID-19 vaccine chatbot for young adults and health workers in the United States: formative mixed methods study

R Weeks, P Sangha, L Cooper, J Sedoc… - JMIR human …, 2023 - humanfactors.jmir.org
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic raised novel challenges in communicating reliable,
continually changing health information to a broad and sometimes skeptical public …

Modernizing the United States' public health infrastructure: A position paper from the American College of Physicians

R Crowley, S Mathew, D Hilden… - Annals of Internal …, 2023 - acpjournals.org
The United States' public health sector plays a crucial role in preventing illness and
promoting health. Public health drove massive gains in life expectancy during the 20th …

[HTML][HTML] “Lives versus livelihoods”: Conflict and coherence between policy objectives in the COVID-19 pandemic

K Esmonde, J Jones, M Johns, B Hutler, R Faden… - Social Science & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many policies were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to
manage the negative impact of the coronavirus. Limiting severe illness and death was one …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …