Drawing on our lived experiences as frontline public health professionals before and throughout the COVID-19 response, we recognize the urgent need to reimagine a public health workforce positioned to ...

Public health was thrust into the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the pandemic exacerbated workforce shortages in the field. A federal agency is trying to reverse that trend locally. Ethan ...

Following the chaotic Speaker election, Congress now turns its attention toward key legislative priorities. Chief among these for both parties must be to ensure our health care system is equipped to ...

Like many other federal agencies, the public health workforce is dangerously close to crisis mode. Between 2017 and 2021, nearly half of all employees in state and local public health agencies in the ...

Public health professionals are the backbone of our health system, and their contributions are vital to the well-being of our communities. As a society, we must value their work, provide the support ...

As the U.S. continues to face complex public health challenges, a new paper published by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health calls for a redefinition of the public ...