Workforce Recruitment

Bringing the Mission to Life: Detroit Health Department Strengthens its Services from the Inside Out

Five leaders from the Detroit Health Department share how they are using PHIG to improve their internal and external operations, strengthen their workforce, and expand emergency response services.

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Building Student Career Pathways: A Public Health Professional’s Toolkit

This toolkit was developed to help organizations create and implement effective student pathways into public health careers and is designed to reduce the burden on individual organizations developing new pathway programs, support preceptors mentoring students, support…

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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.

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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