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AUGUST 18, 2022

High Number of Public Health Workers Consider Leaving Jobs

Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition

By Ethan Covey

More than 40% of public health workers may leave their jobs during the next five years, according to results from the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS).

The findings demonstrate the strain that many public health workers have been under during the COVID-19 pandemic (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2022;71[29]:920-924).

“PH WINS is the only nationally representative survey