bennett-epidemiologyworkforce-2009.pdf (210.91 kB)
The epidemiology workforce : are we planning for the future?
journal contribution
posted on 2009-11-01, 00:00 authored by A Rumbold, Catherine BennettCatherine BennettEpidemiology has a central role in public health practice, education and research, and is arguably the only discipline unique to public health. A strong perception exists among epidemiologists in Australia that there is a substantial shortage in epidemiological capacity within the health workforce and health research, and that there are few graduates with sufficient high-level epidemiological training to fill the educational and leadership roles that will be essential to building this capacity. It was this concern that led the Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA)--the peak professional body for epidemiologists in Australia and New Zealand--to convene a working group in 2007 to assess and address these concerns. This article summarises the key training challenges and opportunities discussed within this group, and the larger organisation, with the intention of stimulating greater public debate of these issues.
History
Journal
Australia and New Zealand health policyVolume
6Issue
Article 26Pagination
1 - 5Publisher
BioMed CentralLocation
London, EnglandPublisher DOI
ISSN
1743-8462Language
engNotes
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2009, Rumbold et al.Usage metrics
Categories
No categories selectedLicence
Exports
RefWorks
BibTeX
Ref. manager
Endnote
DataCite
NLM
DC