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March 4, 2021 COVID?19 has altered the labor market for millions of people, including public health graduates, yet an analysis of job postings for Master s level public health graduates showed that job postings remained at the same levels as before the pandemic, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The findings are published in the
International Journal of Health Planning and Management. Due to the crucial role of disease prevention in responding to and recovering from the COVID?19 pandemic, assessing the public health workforce remains critically important, said Heather Krasna, MS, EdM, assistant dean of career services at Columbia Mailman School, and lead author of the study. Fortunately, the job market for master s level public health graduates has not been as negatively impacted by the COVID?19 pandemic as compared with the broader job market. Alternatively, overall job postings nationally dropped by up to 30 percent