The Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice’s (Council on Linkages') Pipeline Workgroup (Workgroup) aims to identify ways to strengthen the public health workforce by better understanding recruitment and retention factors that impact the workforce, specifically the ways public health workers enter the workforce, their rationale for entering the workforce, and factors that influence their decisions to remain working in public health.
In 2010, the Workgroup conducted a survey of public health workers to explore how and why individuals entered and remained in the public health workforce, as well as their satisfaction with elements of the environments in which they worked, including organizational leadership, management, and professional development. Results of this survey are summarized in the Council on Linkages’ report,
Recruitment and Retention: What’s Influencing the Decisions of Public Health Workers?
Workgroup members include practitioners and educators interested in strengthening the public health workforce through research. For more information about the Workgroup, please contact Kathleen Amos at
kamos@phf.org.
Pipeline Workgroup Members
Chair:
- Vincent Francisco, Department of Applied Behavioral Science, The University of Kansas
Members:
- Susan Allan, School of Public Health, University of Washington
- Magaly Angeloni, Rhode Island Department of Health
- Roxanne Beharie, Ashford University
- Ralph Cordell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Pat Drehobl, CDC
- Clese Erikson, Health Workforce Research Center, The George Washington University
- Eric Gebbie, Public Health Division, Oregon Health Authority
- Julie Gleason-Comstock, School of Medicine, Wayne State University
- Georgia Heise, Three Rivers District Health Department (KY)
- Azania Heyward-James, CDC
- Jeff Jones, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University
- Beth Lamanna, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Susan Lepre, Public Health Consultant
- Jean Moore, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany
- Robin Pendley, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
- Beverly Smith, Health Resources and Services Administration
- Henry Taylor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Tanya Uden-Holman, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
- Susan Webb, Public Health Consultant
- Marlene Wilken, School of Nursing, Creighton University