Enumeration 2024: What We Know and What We Wish We Knew About the Governmental Public Health Workforce in a COVID-19

Jonathon P Leider1, Casey P Balio1, Rachel Hogg-Graham1

  • 1Jonathon P. Leider, Nicole M. Weiss, Abby Vogel, Sezen O. Onal, Xiao Zang, Harshada Karnik, Bibin Joseph, and Morgan Pak are with the Center for Public Health Systems, Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis. Casey P. Balio and Nathan Dockery are with the Center for Rural Health Research, Department of Health Services Management and Policy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City. Rachel Hogg-Graham is with the College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Paula Kett and Betty Bekemeier are with the Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. Joyce Edmonds is with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Amy Belflower Thomas is with the Public Health Accreditation Board, Alexandria, VA.

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