Workforce

Bridging the Gap: Strengthening Public Health Through Internships and Community Capacity Building

Ensuring our public health mission into the future depends on meaningful investment in attracting and engaging with potential public health professionals. Through internships, leadership development, and community engagement, hear how these three jurisdictions have successfully approached…

Tools You Can Use: Resources and Strategies for Leveraging Data to Inform Workforce Planning and Pathways

Three state health departments discuss how to understand, anticipate, and prepare for current and future workforce trends, by leveraging data to better understand the complexities of the public health workforce and create training pathways to ensure…

Workforce Support: Promoting a Culture of Well-being and Recognition

We know supporting the public health workforce is important, but what tools are available to us to actually achieve it, not just provide lip service? In this session, you’ll hear from two jurisdictions that found innovative…

Centering Resources and Approaches in Cultural Knowledge: Exploring Connection Among Health Departments and Communities Served

Explore community-centered partnership approaches that strengthen public health workforce foundations and cultural trust.

Strategies to Strengthen the Capacity of the Public Health Workforce

This session highlights two unique strategies to strengthen the capacity of the public health workforce, the Alabama Department of Public Health’s approach to expand grant management professional development opportunities and Kentucky Department of Health and Northwest…