Public Health Undergraduates in the Workforce: A Trickle, Soon a Wave?

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¹ Paul Campbell Erwin is an AJPH associate editor and is with the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Angela J. Beck is with the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor. Valerie A. Yeager is with the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Jonathon P. Leider is with the Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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Paul Campbell Erwin et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;109(5):685-687.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305004.

¹ Paul Campbell Erwin is an AJPH associate editor and is with the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Angela J. Beck is with the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor. Valerie A. Yeager is with the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Jonathon P. Leider is with the Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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The State of the US Governmental Public Health Workforce, 2014-2017.
Sellers K, Leider JP, Gould E, Castrucci BC, Beck A, Bogaert K, Coronado F, Shah G, Yeager V, Beitsch LM, Erwin PC. Sellers K, et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 May;109(5):674-680. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305011. Epub 2019 Mar 21. Am J Public Health. 2019. PMID: 30896986 Free PMC article.

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