Educated Citizenry or Workforce Pipeline Development? Questions for the Future of Undergraduate Public Health in the United States

Jonathon P Leider¹, Beth Resnick¹, Paul Erwin¹

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¹ Jonathon P. Leider is director of the Center for Public Health Systems and a senior fellow in the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis. Beth Resnick is assistant dean for practice and training at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Paul Erwin is an associate editor with AJPH and dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306742

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Educated Citizenry or Workforce Pipeline Development? Questions for the Future of Undergraduate Public Health in the United States

Jonathon P Leider et al. Am J Public Health. 2022 Apr.

. 2022 Apr;112(4):582-585.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306742.

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Jonathon P Leider¹, Beth Resnick¹, Paul Erwin¹

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¹ Jonathon P. Leider is director of the Center for Public Health Systems and a senior fellow in the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis. Beth Resnick is assistant dean for practice and training at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Paul Erwin is an associate editor with AJPH and dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

PMID: 35319937
PMCID: PMC8961847
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306742

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Growth of the Undergraduate Public Health Degree: United States, 2000–2020 *Source.* National Center for Education Statistics. Includes Classification of Instruction program codes 51.22XX (Public Health), 26.1102 (Biostatistics), 26.1309 (Epidemiology), 44.0503 (Health Policy Analysis), and 51.0504 (Dental Public Health).

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