Goals and Guiding Principles
The Division of Workforce Development (DWD) strategic framework outlines our approach to strengthening the public health workforce. We use this framework to plan, implement, and evaluate our programs and activities. The framework also informs our logic model, which helps us track progress towards our mission.
Vision: A public health workforce prepared to meet emerging and future challenges
Mission: Improve health outcomes through diverse, flexible, and highly trained public health workforce
Goal 1: Quality Learning
Strengthen education, training, and professional development of the public health workforce
- Strengthen the skills of the current public health workforce through quality, accredited, competency-based training
- Build a diverse public health workforce through applied fellowship programs
- Promote career pathways in governmental public health through workforce development programs
Goal 2: Valuable Service
Improve public health impact through service and response
- Address the needs of CDC programs, state, Tribal, local, and territorial health departments, public health labs, and other partners through fellows’ service-learning assignments
- Partner with CDC’s centers, institute, and offices in response to urgent domestic and international public health needs through short- term technical assistance
Goal 3: National Leadership
Provide leadership in public health workforce efforts
- Facilitate the use of standards and best practices for public health training and workforce development programs
- Define public health workforce needs and build evidence to address identified needs
- Strategically address workforce priorities with partners
- Help tell the public health workforce story, therein expanding reach and awareness of challenges, opportunities, and outcomes
Goal 4: Organizational Capacity
Maximize DWD’s potential for achieving impact
- Prioritize core work and ensure alignment of staff and resources
- Strengthen the division’s foundational capabilities and cross-cutting services—leadership, management, operations, communications, partnerships, and scientific quality (including evaluation)
- Support professional development for DWD staff
- Foster excellence in the workplace, where purposeful deployment of inclusive practices are reflected in how we work together and the programs we deliver