Retention and Recruitment Toolkit
January 14, 2025
This document serves as a starting point for a web-based toolkit on retention and recruitment in governmental public health. This PDF document provides an organizing framework, examples, strategies, and resources in five categories:Organizational Culture, Workplace Environment, & Employee ExperienceProfessional...
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Determining Essential Core Competencies for Public Health Jobs: A Prioritization Process (2021 Core Competencies)
November 21, 2022
Public health organizations can be more effective when the competencies of their staff match the types of activities they do in their jobs. Developing job descriptions that include competencies needed for the positions is a good practice for all organizations and supports successful recruitment, hiring,...
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Competencies and Resources for Performance Improvement Professionals in Public Health (Archived Webinar)
March 10, 2016
This archived webinar provides an overview of the draft Competencies for Performance Improvement Professionals in Public Health and introduces resources to assist with implementation of these competencies. Featuring Ron Bialek and Julie Sharp of the Public Health Foundation (PHF), this 60 minute webinar...
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Recruitment and Retention: What’s Influencing the Decisions of Public Health Workers?
February 22, 2016
In 2010, the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) conducted a survey to explore recruitment and retention within the US public health workforce. The survey considered factors that influenced individuals’ decisions to take and remain in jobs in the public...
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Enumeration of the Public Health Workforce Project - Year 1 Summary
June 6, 2012
This report was revised and published in September 2012. Click the "Download this File" link in the green box above to view the latest report.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) are pleased to announce a report on a collaborative...
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Key Findings from a Council on Linkages Survey of Public Health Workers (2011 APHA Annual Meeting)
November 21, 2011
This presentation highlights findings from a Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice survey of public health workers to determine how and why they enter the public health field and reasons they remain in that workforce. Implications for public health recruitment and retention...
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Recruiting & Retaining Public Health Workers – Lessons Learned from a Survey of Public Health Workers
November 9, 2010
This presentation, given by Vincent T. Francisco, PhD and Robin Pendley, MPH, CPH outlines the background and purpose of a public health workforce survey that was deployed by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) in the spring of 2010. The presentation...
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Background Paper: About the Council on Linkages Pipeline Workgroup
October 4, 2010
This paper (last updated in Summer 2010) outlines the background and purpose of the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice Pipeline Workgroup. It gives a summary of work that has been conducted thus far in efforts to map the pipeline of public health workers and address the...
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NLM Literature Search on Recruitment and Retention 2009
October 2, 2010
In 2009, the National Library of Medicine conducted a literature search to help inform the public health community about strategies to address worker shortages. This document contains citations and abstracts for 48 research articles and projects on recruitment and retention efforts and reasons individuals...
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