Competency-Based Workforce Development Plans
Workforce development plans are key for ensuring a skilled workforce and are an essential component of Public Health Accreditation Board accreditation. Samples of workforce development plans based on the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) are provided below to assist organizations in incorporating the Core Competencies into their own workforce development plans.
2021 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
State Health Departments
- Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services – Workforce Development Plan: Re-envisioning and Strengthening the Public Health Workforce, January 2024
- Montana Public Health – Workforce Development Plan, January 2024 – December 2025
Local Health Departments
- Sedgwick County Health Department (KS) – Workforce Development Plan: 2024-2025
- Columbus Public Health (OH) – Columbus Public Health Workforce Development Plan 2023 – 2027
Previous Versions of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
State Health Departments
- Delaware Division of Public Health – Workforce Development Plan: 2014-2017
- Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention* and Hanley Center for Health Leadership – Maine Public Health Workforce Development Plan: Updated – May 2016
- New Mexico Department of Health – Workforce Development Plan: 2014
- Rhode Island Department of Health – Workforce Development Plan: December 2013
Tribal Health Departments
- Forest County Potawatomi Community Health Department (WI) – Workforce Development Plan
Local Health Departments
- Chicago Department of Public Health (IL) – Workforce Development Plan: August 31, 2012
- City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (CA) – Workforce Development and Training Survey Report and Training Plan
- Columbus Public Health (OH) – Workforce Development Plan: 2018-2020 and CPH Curriculum and Training Schedule: 2018-2020
- Denver Public Health (CO) – Workforce Development Plan: 2018
- District Health Department #10 (MI) – Workforce Development Plan: April 25, 2014
- Gallatin City-County Health Department (MT) – Workforce Development Plan: 2015-2016
- Kent County Health Department (MI) – Workforce Development Plan: 2013-2016
- Maricopa County Department of Public Health (AZ) – Workforce Development Plan
- Meeker-McLeod-Sibley Community Health Services (MN) – Workforce Development Plan: 2015
- Monterey County Health Department (CA) – 2015-2018 Workforce Development Plan
- Nevada County Public Health (CA) – Workforce Development Plan: December 2018
- Oklahoma City-County Health Department (OK) – Workforce Development Plan
- Tazewell County Health Department (IL) – Workforce Development Plan
- Three Rivers District Health Department (KY) – Workforce Development Plan for Individual Competency, Agency Effectiveness, and Public Health Outcomes
- Wood County Health Department (WI) – Workforce Competency Development Plan: October 2013
The Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice’s Core Competencies Workgroup collects examples of workforce development plans that incorporate the Core Competencies. To add your organization’s workforce development plan to this collection, please contact Kathleen Amos at kamos@phf.org.
This resource was made possible through funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Cooperative Agreement Number NU38OT000211. The content of this resource is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the sponsor.