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Report Summary
Te Uru Kahikatea (TUK) is the national strategy to guide public health workforce development in Aotearoa, New Zealand. TUK has a 10 year focus that aims to support the growth and development of the public health workforce.
New Zealand has not until now had such national strategy for public health. Yet the general consensus across the entire health sector is that the pace of workforce change must quicken. This challenge is the same for the public health workforce, who must equip themselves to adapt to changing models of care, changing community and societal structures, changing population demographics and changing public health issues.
The vision for public health workforce development is that inequalities will be reduced and the health of all peoples in New Zealand will be improved through public health and societal strategies that are:
- Delivered by a properly configured, responsive, well-trained and competent (including culturally competent) workforce
- Strengthened with core public health skills and knowledge
- Supported by infrastructure and workplaces that actively encourages and develops the public health workforce.
TUK, which was developed on a wide range of foundation research and sector feedback, offers
- 2 overarching goals
- 9 corresponding objectives, and
- 3-5 year actions under each objective.
The TUK objectives are organised around the following areas of work:
- Education and training
- Maori public health workforce development
- Pacific public health workforce development
- Public health professional infrastructure
- Wider public health workforce development
- Information, policy and research
- Supportive workplace cultures
- Promoting public health careers
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