The authors find that about half of the governmental public health workforce left their jobs between 2017 and 2021.Employees in 2017 who were ages thirty-five and younger or had five years’ experience or less had significantly greater odds of leaving by 2021.
An estimated 57 percent of the workforce could be lost by 2025 if current trends continue.
Leider and coauthors
assert that in order to maximize resources allocated to the public health workforce, policies and interventions should focus on efforts including modernizing talent acquisition, improving workplace culture, training existing workers, and addressing student debt.
Brian Castrucci, one of the coauthors of the paper, recently joined us on A Health Podyssey to discuss the findings of the paper, which you can listen to here.
Elsewhere in Forefront, Richard Hughes IV reflects on the future of US vaccine programs, and considers the lessons learned from the COVID-19 vaccination program that could be applied to existing programs.
In case you missed it, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviewed Jennifer Kao from the UCLA Anderson School of Management on an episode of A Health Podyssey to discuss her paper examining drug repurposing for COVID-19 treatments.
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