The website is for people interested or involved in:
- public health
- public health workforce development
- careers in public health
This site offers information about how to develop your career, it profiles workforce development initiatives that may assist your professional development, and it offers information, tools and resources to assist with your organisation's workforce development.
Over time this site will become a useful repository of sector-wide workforce development information; a platform to:
- share information about what workforce development issues, innovations and initiatives exist in the sector
- access the national strategy for public health workforce development (Te Uru Kahikatea: The Public Health Workforce Development Plan)
- find out about careers in public health and job vacancies
- assist people to understand what public health and public health workforce development are about
- link people and organisations to each other
- easily obtain relevant research and tools.
We welcome your information and links onto this site. (See "Contact Us" in the main menu).
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Te Uru Kahikatea
The Public Health Workforce Development Plan 2007-2016
Building a public health workforce for the 21st century
Other Reports can be found in the
Reports and Resources Section
What's New?
Evaluation of Draft Workforce Development Guidelines for Public Health Managers Pilot
This is the Evaluation Report for the WFD Guidelines for PH Managers (“Guidelines”). The Guidelines, which are a tool to assist managers to develop an organisational workforce development plan, were piloted in May – July 2008. An action plan to amend the Guidelines and make them available to the whole public health sector will be released shortly.
Health Promotion Short Courses 2008
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