Public Health Workforce Development: Keeping Population Health Goals in Mind

In the public health field, there is anidentified need to develop the publichealth workforce strategically to meetthe needs of a changing public healthlandscape. The “core competencies”that support the implementation of thecore functions of public health must betied to the mission and goals of theagency or program, and examined inlight of the specific population healthconcerns they are meant to address.CAST-5 is offered as an example of atool fulfilling this role for stateMaternal and Child Health programs.