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The Kentucky Department for Public Health is leveraging academic partnerships to ensure its workers have the training and skills needed to do their jobs well.
Kentucky is expanding workforce capacity by allocating PHIG funds directly to local health departments and partnering with the Kentucky Health Departments Association on tuition assistance programs.
Steven Stack, MD, ASTHO member and commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health and ASTHO’s immediate past president, tells us how his state is using PHIG to improve the state of public health in Kentucky.
In 2022, the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) began implementing strategies for promoting public health careers among high school and college students and to establish pathways for young professionals to enter the public health…
