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Workforce development activities play a key role in building efficiency and effectiveness within public health organizations and thus in ensuring the health of the population. As in any organization, the performance of health departments and other public health entities is closely tied to the competence...

Strengthen Workforce Training with a Competency-Based Approach

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

March 16, 2012

The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies), a consensus set of competencies detailing skills desirable for the broad practice of public health, offer a starting point for public health professionals and organizations working to identify and address workforce training...

Public Health Successes Build Upon a Competent Public Health Workforce

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

December 1, 2011

Public health professionals across the country strive to make a difference in their communities by protecting and promoting the health of the population. As the Institute of Medicine noted in its 2003 report, Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century,...