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Jocelyn Leung receives Climate and Health Equity Fellowship
New study suggests link between tear gas exposures and adverse reproductive health outcomes
U of M School of Public Health will lead a comprehensive analysis of the nation’s public health workforce
New study explores staffing priorities and challenges at local public health departments
School of Public Health’s Rachel Hardeman named one of STAT News’ 2023 ‘Status Leaders’
STAT News named Hardeman one of the 2023’s “Status Leaders” for her work in exposing racism’s role in maternal health disparities.
With new grant, School of Public Health researchers will build capacity for measuring structural racism
The $1.25 million project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “Making the Invisible Visible: Building Capacity for the Measurement of Structural Racism” will advance the work of measuring structural racism and its impact on racialized communities across the US.
Nearly half of all state and local public health employees left their jobs from 2017 to 2021
A new study finds that if the rate of employee departures continues, more than half of the nation’s entire public health workforce could leave their organizations by 2025.
Federal workers left their jobs at higher rates in the first year of the pandemic
Among all surveyed workers, intention to leave increased by 5% in the first year of the pandemic compared to earlier that year
U.S. Senator Tina Smith Visits University of Minnesota School of Public Health to Discuss SPH’s National Leadership in Addressing the Public Health Workforce Shortage
New study provides a comprehensive overview of US public health workforce
While acknowledging that public health workforce shortages are likely to persist, the paper identified strategies that policymakers could adopt to alleviate shortages, including taking proactive steps to increase the diversity of the workforce, introducing loan repayment programs for public health graduates, reforms to the government hiring process, and increased public health worker protections.
New study finds dramatic growth in undergraduate public health degree conferrals over the past two decades
Recipients of undergraduate degrees in public health are highly diverse, with more than 80 percent being women and 55 percent from communities of color. However, after graduation, only about 10 percent of degree recipients are currently choosing public sector employment opportunities.
