On March 21, 2019, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 1-day workshop to explore the broad and multidisciplinary nature of the population health workforce. Workshop participants explored methods for facilitating a population health orientation/perspective among public health and health care leaders and professionals; framing the work of personnel such as community health workers (CHWs), health navigators, and peer-to-peer chronic disease management educators within the context of population health; and leveraging the competencies of public and private sector workforces, such as education, transportation, and planning, that are working to include a “health in all policies,” community livability, or well-being orientation in their activities. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Contents

• The National Academies of SCIENCES • ENGINEERING • MEDICINE
• PLANNING COMMITTEE ON DIALOGUE ABOUT THE WORKFORCE FOR POPULATION HEALTH IMPROVEMENT
• ROUNDTABLE ON POPULATION HEALTH IMPROVEMENT
• Reviewers
• 1. Introduction
  • WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
  • CONTEXT
  • ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP AND PROCEEDINGS
• 2. Building a Health Workforce for the Future: Lessons from a MultiStakeholder Statewide Initiative
  • DISCUSSION
• 3. Perspectives from Professional and Accrediting Organizations
  • PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE INTEREST AND NEEDS SURVEY
  • ROLE OF ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS IN ASSESSING POPULATION HEALTH NEEDS
  • STATE OF PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION
  • LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE CONSIDERATIONS
  • PHYSICIAN EDUCATION AND HEALTH EQUITY
  • DISCUSSION
• 4. The Community Health Workforce
  • COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER PANEL
  • STANDARDIZED, SCALABLE, AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE POPULATION HEALTH
  • COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND THE OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS ASSOCIATION
  • COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER TRAINING AND THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSION
  • POPULATION HEALTH WORKFORCE SUPPORT FOR DISADVANTAGED AREAS PROGRAM
  • DISCUSSION
• 5. Cross-Sector Workforce: National and Local Examples
  • TRAIN LEARNING NETWORK AND COMPETENCIES FOR POPULATION HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
  • NONTRADITIONAL STUDENT TRAINING THROUGH THE BLOOMBERG AMERICAN HEALTH INITIATIVE
  • PLANNING AND PUBLIC HEALTH
  • HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA
  • DISCUSSION
• 6. Breakout Session: Moving Toward a Population Health Workforce Exercise
  • INSTRUCTIONS
  • DISCUSSION
• 7. Reflections on the Day and Closing Remarks
• Appendix A. References
• Appendix B. Workshop Agenda
• Appendix C. Biosketches of Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members
• Appendix D. Small Group Exercise Instructions and Worksheet

Suggested citation:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Dialogue about the workforce for population health improvement: Proceedings of a workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25545.

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.17226/25545

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