Strategic Framework
Vision: A public health workforce prepared to meet emerging and future challenges
Mission: Improve health outcomes through a competent sustainable, and empowered public health workforce
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Goal 1: Quality Learning
Strengthen Education, Training, and Professional Development of the Public Health Workforce
- Current Workforce — Strengthen the skills of the current workforce through quality, accredited, competency-based training
- Fellowship Programs — Build the public health workforce through experiential fellowship programs
- Future Workforce — Promote public health as a career choice through programs for students and teachers
Goal 2: Valuable Service
Enhance Service, Response, and Consultation
- Improve public health impact through fellows’ on-the-job service
- Serve the needs of CDC programs, state and local health departments, and other partners through fellows’ assignments
- Respond to urgent domestic and international public health needs through short- term technical assistance
- Enhance consultation services for fellowships, learning resources, and other workforce development activities
Goal 3: National Leadership
Provide Leadership in National Public Health Workforce Efforts
- Facilitate the use of standards for public health training and career pathways
- Characterize the workforce and assess needs before setting priorities
- Facilitate national collaborations with partners to address workforce priorities
Goal 4: Organizational Capacity
Maximize DSEPD’s Potential for Achieving Impact
- Ensure alignment of staff and resources with priorities
- Strengthen leadership, management, and operations
- Support professional development for DSEPD staff
- Enhance communication to expand reach, visibility, and impact
Guiding Principles
- Keeping an eye to the future in a changing public health environment
- Shifting the balance toward a population health approach to workforce development
- Expanding innovative models for fellowships and other training programs
- Leveraging technology to improve efficiencies and impact
- Applying evidence-based approaches, from science to practice
- Enhancing collaboration and partnerships
- Evaluating to measure impact, ensure cost-effectiveness, and improve quality
- Valuing diversity in our staff and fellows
- Being customer-focused
- Serving as effective stewards of public resources
Page last reviewed: January 17, 2020