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Key Findings From A Council On Linkages Survey Of Public Health Workers, Vincent Francisco, Jeffery A. Jones, Robin Pendley

Jeffery A Jones

The US governmental public health workforce is dwindling while the need for additional workers is increasing. In an historic effort to address this issue, in March 2010 the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) surveyed over 70,000 public health workers across the US to determine how, when, and why they entered the governmental public health workforce and reasons they have remained in the workforce. Key survey findings were released in the spring of 2011 and have informed the development by the Council on Linkages of evidence-assisted recruitment and retention strategies for the US public …