State and Local Public Health Leadership: Politics and the Public Health Workforce

Topic:
State Policy Capacity

This virtual convening on politics and the public health workforce with Drs. Michael Sparer and Lawrence Brown of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health included invited state and local health policy leaders from Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, and Washington. The researchers discussed their Commonwealth Fund-supported study, Politics and the Public Health Workforce: Lessons Suggested from a Five-State Study, on building bipartisan support for public health. This was based in part on visits to these five states to examine the distribution of American Rescue Act public health workforce funds, as well as state-based initiatives.

Conveners:

  • Morgan McDonald, MD, Milbank Memorial Fund
  • Michael Sparer, JD, PhD, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  • Lawrence Brown, PhD, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health