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It's time to attract new public health workers with evidence-based job descriptions and eye-catching job postings

The time is right to attract new public healt

Health departments have a historic opportunity to bolster their workforce due to new funding but often do not have accurate or updated job descriptions or short, attention-grabbing job postings to use as marketing tools for recruitment. New research will help lead to evidence-based job descriptions and postings that health departments can now use.

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Bridge between public health education and government workforce needs fixing

Driven by the pandemic, applicants flood public health schools

Certified registered nurse anesthetist Lisa Taft, who normally works in operating rooms, enters a room to care for Covid-19 patients in a makeshift ICU at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif. Mario Tama/Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic has tested the public health and medical workforces like never before. And yet people in those fields say they see emerging signs that the crisis will inspire the next generation of doctors, nurses, and public health professionals to join the ranks. Public health schools, for example, saw a 23% jump in applicants for master’s and doctoral programs from fall 2019 to fall 2020, and are reporting an even bigger increase so far in this application cycle, according to the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.