Public health workforce assessment: Local public health and higher education in Minnesota, 2019 (PDF), August 2019. MDH engaged with local public health and Minnesota colleges and universities to identify current and future public health workforce needs and challenges in Minnesota, and understand how to create new pathways for public health careers. Next steps include meeting with the planning team throughout 2020, and developing an action plan to address priority areas identified by the planning team. The planning team includes representatives from MDH, local public health, higher education institutions, and other partners (AMC, LPHA, MPHA, Henry Street Consortium, and Central Region Education and Practice Group).
The public health nurse workforce in Minnesota: Making informed decisions about hiring public health nurses and other professionals (PDF), January 2020. Public health nurses are an integral part of governmental public health work in Minnesota. Hiring and retaining public health nurses, particularly in local health departments, is challenging for a number of reasons. This report seeks to distinguish positions that must be filled by a public health nurse from those that may be filled by other professionals like social workers, health educators, and community health workers.
How is public health currently staffed in Minnesota? Visit Past data: LPH Act annual reporting, and look for the most recent year's summary of workforce data. health inequities.