Public Health Workforce Professional Development Analysis: A Human-Systems Integration for Healthy Communities

ObjectivesThe healthcare landscape is challenged by emerging and severe public health threats, and fast shifting priorities. There is an urgent need to build public health workforce capacity to enable rapid adaptation and effective responses to these threats. We outline a whole system’s learning app...

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Main Authors: Bashkin Osnat, Baron-Epel Orna, Bochenek Tomasz, Czabanowska Kasia, Davidovitch Nadav, De Nooijer Jascha, Dopelt Keren, Duplaga Mariusz, Harrington Janas, Leighton Lore, Levine Hagai, MacLeod Fiona, Malowany Maureen, Mor Zohar, Neumark Yehuda, Okenwa-Emegwa Leah, Otok Robert, Paillard-Borg Stephanie, Peled-Raz Maya, Tulchinsky Theodore, Zelber-Sagi Shira, Barach Paul
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608006/full
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Baron-Epel Orna
Bochenek Tomasz
Czabanowska Kasia
Davidovitch Nadav
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De Nooijer Jascha
Dopelt Keren
Duplaga Mariusz
Harrington Janas
Leighton Lore
Levine Hagai
MacLeod Fiona
Malowany Maureen
Mor Zohar
Neumark Yehuda
Okenwa-Emegwa Leah
Otok Robert
Paillard-Borg Stephanie
Peled-Raz Maya
Tulchinsky Theodore
Zelber-Sagi Shira
Barach Paul
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Harrington Janas
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Levine Hagai
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Malowany Maureen
Mor Zohar
Neumark Yehuda
Okenwa-Emegwa Leah
Otok Robert
Paillard-Borg Stephanie
Peled-Raz Maya
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Barach Paul
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description ObjectivesThe healthcare landscape is challenged by emerging and severe public health threats, and fast shifting priorities. There is an urgent need to build public health workforce capacity to enable rapid adaptation and effective responses to these threats. We outline a whole system’s learning approach for analyzing public health systems in collaboration with public health leaders.MethodsThe project included: i) a system’s analysis involving a cross-sectional mixed methods approach including a quantitative investigation, interviews and focus groups of leading representatives and students from five higher education institutions providing public health training, 49 managers, and 31 stakeholders from lead public health organizations; ii) develop and implement training interventions, involving human factors tools for evaluating and developing actionable solutions.ResultsWe developed and implemented three interventions: 1) An online user interface for public health professional development and collaboration; 2) A Public Health Leadership Academy; and 3) A video outreach to key stakeholders and communities using studies.ConclusionA holistic perspective incorporating human factors, and a systems approach provided a comprehensive understanding and approch towards the public health workforce while identifying leverage points for durable improvement.
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spelling doaj-art-9ca565df5b4244c4bcfd419ea7dd135d2025-08-20T02:04:23ZengFrontiers Media S.A.International Journal of Public Health1661-85642025-02-017010.3389/ijph.2025.16080061608006Public Health Workforce Professional Development Analysis: A Human-Systems Integration for Healthy CommunitiesBashkin Osnat0Baron-Epel Orna1Bochenek Tomasz2Czabanowska Kasia3Davidovitch Nadav4Davidovitch Nadav5Davidovitch Nadav6De Nooijer Jascha7Dopelt Keren8Duplaga Mariusz9Harrington Janas10Leighton Lore11Levine Hagai12MacLeod Fiona13Malowany Maureen14Mor Zohar15Neumark Yehuda16Okenwa-Emegwa Leah17Otok Robert18Paillard-Borg Stephanie19Peled-Raz Maya20Tulchinsky Theodore21Zelber-Sagi Shira22Barach Paul23Barach Paul24Barach Paul25Department of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, IsraelSchool of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelDepartment of Health Promotion and e-Health, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, PolandSchool of Health Professions Education, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, NetherlandsDepartment of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, IsraelThe Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians (IAPHP), Israeli Medical Association, Ramat Gan, IsraelThe Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Brussels, BelgiumSchool of Health Professions Education, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, NetherlandsDepartment of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, IsraelDepartment of Health Promotion and e-Health, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, PolandSchool of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, IrelandThe Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Brussels, BelgiumThe Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians (IAPHP), Israeli Medical Association, Ramat Gan, IsraelSchool of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, IrelandBraun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IsraelDepartment of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, IsraelBraun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel0Department of Health Sciences, The Swedish Red Cross University, Huddinge, SwedenThe Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Brussels, Belgium0Department of Health Sciences, The Swedish Red Cross University, Huddinge, SwedenSchool of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelDepartment of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, IsraelSchool of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel1College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States2College of Population Health, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria3Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesObjectivesThe healthcare landscape is challenged by emerging and severe public health threats, and fast shifting priorities. There is an urgent need to build public health workforce capacity to enable rapid adaptation and effective responses to these threats. We outline a whole system’s learning approach for analyzing public health systems in collaboration with public health leaders.MethodsThe project included: i) a system’s analysis involving a cross-sectional mixed methods approach including a quantitative investigation, interviews and focus groups of leading representatives and students from five higher education institutions providing public health training, 49 managers, and 31 stakeholders from lead public health organizations; ii) develop and implement training interventions, involving human factors tools for evaluating and developing actionable solutions.ResultsWe developed and implemented three interventions: 1) An online user interface for public health professional development and collaboration; 2) A Public Health Leadership Academy; and 3) A video outreach to key stakeholders and communities using studies.ConclusionA holistic perspective incorporating human factors, and a systems approach provided a comprehensive understanding and approch towards the public health workforce while identifying leverage points for durable improvement.https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608006/fullhuman factorspublic health workforce developmenttrainingorganizational factorseducation
spellingShingle Bashkin Osnat
Baron-Epel Orna
Bochenek Tomasz
Czabanowska Kasia
Davidovitch Nadav
Davidovitch Nadav
Davidovitch Nadav
De Nooijer Jascha
Dopelt Keren
Duplaga Mariusz
Harrington Janas
Leighton Lore
Levine Hagai
MacLeod Fiona
Malowany Maureen
Mor Zohar
Neumark Yehuda
Okenwa-Emegwa Leah
Otok Robert
Paillard-Borg Stephanie
Peled-Raz Maya
Tulchinsky Theodore
Zelber-Sagi Shira
Barach Paul
Barach Paul
Barach Paul
Public Health Workforce Professional Development Analysis: A Human-Systems Integration for Healthy Communities
International Journal of Public Health
human factors
public health workforce development
training
organizational factors
education
title Public Health Workforce Professional Development Analysis: A Human-Systems Integration for Healthy Communities
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title_fullStr Public Health Workforce Professional Development Analysis: A Human-Systems Integration for Healthy Communities
title_full_unstemmed Public Health Workforce Professional Development Analysis: A Human-Systems Integration for Healthy Communities
title_short Public Health Workforce Professional Development Analysis: A Human-Systems Integration for Healthy Communities
title_sort public health workforce professional development analysis a human systems integration for healthy communities
topic human factors
public health workforce development
training
organizational factors
education
url https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608006/full
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