JPHMP Direct November 30, 2022
While Public Health training centers will continue to play a critical role in training the public health workforce…we must find ways to engage, recruit, and retain this workforce, as well as train them.
Originally founded and funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration in 1999, state-based Public Health Training Centers were created with the idea of educating public health practitioners on the job. Schools and programs of public health were handling the needs of the future workforce, but what about the current practitioners? Only a small percentage of the workforce had a public health degree and the training needs were evolving. In 2014, the Public Health Training Centers changed into their current form: one training center for...