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Wave of Departing Public Health Workers Puts America at Risk

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The public health workforce has been declining since 2009. 75 percent of workers 35 and younger left state and local public health agencies in 2017-2021. If current trends continue, nearly 130,000 public health workers will leave their jobs by 2025. The sector already needs 80,000 more workers to be able to provide basic, necessary public health services.

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Wave of Departing Public Health Workers Puts America at Risk

Nearly half of all state and local public health employees left their jobs between 2017 and 2021. An additional 80,000 workers are needed to provide a minimum set of public health services to citizens.

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