Basic Personnel Tools to Help Ensure a Future Public Health and Environmental Laboratory Workforce

Building the Future Environmental Health Workforce.

Building a laboratory workforce to meet the future: ASCP Task Force on the Laboratory Professionals Workforce.

OBJECTIVES To analyze the demand for services from the nation's medical laboratories, which is predicted to dramatically increase as our citizens age and millions receive insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act. METHODS A systematic review of relevant publications and databases was conducted to assess the current state of the nation's medical laboratory workforce and to examine the...

European accreditation and the future public health workforce.

BACKGROUND In 2011 the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA) was initially launched focusing on Master level (second cycle) education. METHODS Between 2012 and 2013 the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region, APHEA and partner schools conducted a study on the compliance of Master level programmes of public health to the accreditation criteria. A web-...

Health Department Accreditation as a Catalyst to Foster the Development of a Future Public Health Workforce

The relatively new Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) proffers a new force to bring attention to the need for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education for those working in public health. The workforce of federal, state, and local health departments in the United States comprises more than 450,000 individuals representing a wide variety of disciplines, from nurses to sanitary engi...

Enumerating the environmental public health workforce--challenges and opportunities.

sanitarians, and environmental health professionals and practitioners. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of CDC. CAPT Mehran Massoudi is the associate director for science in the Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office at CDC; he has been at CDC for 18 years working in various di...