Workgroup Background Information
In an attempt to strengthen the public health workforce, both in numbers and in quality, the Council set out to map the pipeline for public health professionals, charting how, when, and where people enter and leave governmental public health agencies.
All the information collected by the Council between September 2007 and May 2008 is available here.
Policy Statement
After an extensive literature review, the Council concluded in May 2008 that the necessary data are significantly lacking. The Council, however, maintains that the collection of this type of data is an essential first step to developing effective polices and programs for ensuring a well trained and adequately sized governmental public health workforce.
As such, the Council has released a policy statement to convey to policy makers/funders and potential data collectors the importance of gathering data on the workforce flow into and out of governmental public health agencies. The Council hopes that the policy statement will lead potential collectors of data (on both the practice and academic sides of public health) to request funding and potential funders to be receptive to these requests.
Conference call meetings (all agendas and minutes are PDFs):
Thursday, May 8, 2008 from 2-3:30 p.m. ET. See the agenda and minutes.
Monday, April 14, 2008 from 2-3:00 p.m. ET. See the agenda and minutes.
Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. ET. See the agenda and the minutes.
Wednesday, November 16, 2007 at 3:30 p.m. ET. See the agenda and the minutes.
For further information on the workgroup:
Background Paper (PDF)
List of Workgroup Members
If you would like additional information on the workgroup, please contact Ron Bialelk at rbialek@phf.org or 202-218-4400.
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