Health Affairs April 10, 2024
Public health funding in the United States has proven insufficient to the needs of our public health institutions. Over the past 20 years, large-scale public health workforce reviews identified recruitment, diversity, and retention priorities that, despite incremental progress, remain largely unmet. In the decade after the Great Recession, nearly one in five public health jobs nationwide were eliminated. These shortages were further exacerbated by burnout and disproportionate rates of post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A November 2023 study of 96 state and local public health agencies found the national public health workforce will be halved by 2025 if separation trends continue at pace.
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