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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Institute of Medicine

Last Reviewed: 2003

Workgroups: Public Health Infrastructure Workgroup

This report gives an overview of public health education. It: 

  • Describes current and future challenges facing public health professionals
  • Provides recommendations for training and educating the public health workforce to meet those challenges

Specifically, it recommends addressing public health education from an ecological perspective (including policy implications) and identifies critical topic areas for public health education.

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Objectives related to this resource (2)

Increase the proportion of state and territorial public health agencies that use core competencies in continuing education — PHI‑06
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of local public health agencies that use core competencies in continuing education — PHI‑07
Target met or exceeded

Suggested Citation

1.

Institute of Medicine. (2003). Who will keep the public healthy? Educating public health professionals for the 21st century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.