Public Health and Emergency Workforce Roadmap: The First Steering Committee Meeting

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Oct 20, 2022

In May 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Public Health and Emergency Workforce Roadmap (the Roadmap), a document outlining a strategy to measure and ensure the appropriate training, size and shape of competent and professionalized public health workers, both for the appropriate delivery of daily public health in all its multiple settings, and for deployment during emergencies.

The WFPHA has endorsed the Roadmap and is actively involved in and supporting this work through the WFPHA Public Health Professionals’ Education and Training (PET) Working Group. The Roadmap subgroup on competency-based education is co-chaired by Dr Priscilla Robinson, Co-Chair of the PET Working Group.

The first Steering Committee Meeting of the Roadmap was held at WHO Headquarters in Geneva from 17-19 October 2022. The Roadmap Steering Committee includes technical experts from all WHO regions, many public health professionals and organizations, and its 40 members come from almost as many countries.