ASPHER-WHO/EURO Task Force on Professionalising the Public Health Workforce (PPHW-TF)

Task Force Chair: Katarzyna Czabanowska,
Professor of Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development,
Head of Department of International Health,  
Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI),
Maastricht University

The Public Health Workforce Professionalisation (PPHW-TF) is pivotal to raising awareness and recognition of the public health profession in the European Region and globally. It is centred around such topics as: public health employment outcomes, licencing and credentialing, public health job taxonomy, public health workforce development and planning, public health education at graduate and post graduate levels including continuing professional development (CPD) training, public health codes of ethics and professional conduct, enumeration and professional self-government. More specifically, the field focuses also on capacity building, competency-based education and training, systematic development of competency frameworks, competency development, self-assessment methods and identification of skill gaps for the provision of essential public health operations. The field is system specific, dependent on the stakeholders and governance structures.

The PPHW-TF will meet monthly. Please contact ASPHER Secretariat of you wish to participate.

Key documents: 

WHO-ASPHER ROADMAP TO PROFESSIONALIZATION

WHO-ASPHER COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE IN THE EUROPEAN REGION

Katarzyna Czabanowska, Pablo Rodriguez Feria, Ellen Kuhlmann, Polychronis Kostoulas, John Middleton, Laura Magana, Gabriella Sutton, Julien Goodman, Genc Burazeri, Olga Aleksandrova, Natalia Piven, Professionalization of the public health workforce: scoping review and call to action, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2024, Pages 52–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad171