Workforce Planning

New Materials: PHAB’s Foundational Public Health Services Capacity and Cost Assessment Tool

PHAB’s Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) Capacity and Cost Assessment tool helps health departments and health department systems assess their current spending and capacity towards the FPHS, determine the needed investments to fully implement the…

How Wisconsin DHS Leveraged PHIG Funding to Strengthen Foundational Public Health Services

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services’s strategic, systems-wide approach to PHIG offers a national model for how flexible funding can drive sustainable public health transformation.

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Let’s Not Reinvent the Wheel: A Tool to Recruit and Retain Top Public Health Talent

The Public Health Model Job Descriptions Project is a free resource that helps health agencies modernize job descriptions and postings to better attract, hire, and retain a strong public health workforce.

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Team discussing strategies for public health infrastructure funding and grant opportunities.

Likely Public Health Legislative Trends for 2025

Get an inside look at prospective public health legislative trends for 2025, based on ASTHO’s legislative tracking efforts and member feedback.

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Strengthening the Public Health and Health Care Workforce

This policy brief from ASTHO discusses legislative trends related to public health career pathways, recruitment, retention, and funding.

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