Workforce Recruitment

How to Recruit, Hire, Monitor and Train Community Health Workers: Guide for Local Health Departments

This course developed by the Region 2 Public Health Training Center describes the integral role that community health workers can play in public health departments and explains how to integrate them into your organization or agency.

Attracting New Talent to the Governmental Public Health Workforce: Strategies for Improved Recruitment of Public Health Graduates

This journal article highlights a gap between education and employment in governmental public health.

How Academic Health Department Partnerships Support Recruitment and Retention

The Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) and the Public Health Foundation hosted an interactive webinar focused on how academic health department partnerships are helping health departments recruit and retain…

PHIG Funding Breaks Down Silos in Michigan

Sarah Lyon-Callo, senior deputy director for public health administration and the state epidemiologist for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, tells us how the unique ability to use PHIG across sectors helps break down…

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Mapping Workforce and Artificial Intelligence Legislation

This report provides an overview of the Public Health Infrastructure Map and highlights examples of strategies implemented by states to enhance their public health infrastructure.

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