Public health workforce development efforts during the past 50 years have evolved from a
focus on enumerating workers to comprehensive strategies that address workforce size and …

Background The aim of this study is to define the research capacity and training needs for
professionals working on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the public health arena in …

The global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome highlighted the need to detect and
control disease outbreaks at their source, as envisioned by the 2005 revised International …

The Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) has yielded the first-
ever nationally representative sample of state health agency central office employees. The …

Objectives. To assess salary differences between workers within key public health
occupations in local or state government and workers in the same occupations in the private …

Secretary for Health and included representatives from US Public Health Service agencies
and other major public health organizations, was organized to clarify the public health …

BACKGROUND: With nearly one quarter of the combined governmental public health
workforce eligible for retirement within the next few years, recruitment and retention of …

Background The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) implemented the
Applied Epidemiology Fellowship (AEF) in 2003 to train public health professionals in …

Purpose Despite increases in formal education, changing trends affecting epidemiologic
practice prompted concerns over whether epidemiologists had sufficient training. Methods …

Abstract In 2002, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) conducted its
first national food safety epidemiology capacity assessment, which provided the basis for …