Career Trends of University of Minnesota School of Public Health Alumni: Baseline Survey Results for a Longitudinal Study.

IF 2.2 4区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI:10.1097/PHH.0000000000002138

Nicole M Weiss, Jonathon P Leider, Darren Kaltved, Kablia Thao, Melinda Pettigrew

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Abstract

Objective: This work describes baseline results of the University of Minnesota (UMN) School of Public Health (SPH) Career Trends Survey (CTS), allowing for comparison to future CTS data.

Design and setting: The UMN SPH CTS was fielded using multiple methods, including paper and online, from January to March 2021.

Participants: All US-based (at time of survey) UMN SPH alumni for whom the school maintained contact information were eligible to complete the survey. In total, 8817 alumni received the survey and 1966 responded (22% response rate).

Main outcome measure: We examined the proportion of graduates' first jobs by job sector over time, the proportion of graduates who switched job sectors over time, and how closely graduates' first jobs related to public health over time.

Results: Graduates overwhelmingly reported that their first jobs were either "somewhat related" or "strongly related" to public health, but a smaller proportion of graduates in the 2010s reported their first jobs being "strongly related" to public health compared to graduates from the first decades for which we have data.

Conclusions: Data suggest a noteworthy trend: proportionally fewer of our recent public health graduates are going into governmental public health. Though a more nationally representative dataset is still needed, our results are a crucial step forward in determining how to mitigate the staffing up difficulties faced by many public health agencies.

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目标：这项工作描述了明尼苏达大学公共卫生学院（UMN）职业趋势调查（CTS）的基线结果，以便与未来的 CTS 数据进行比较：明尼苏达大学公共卫生学院职业趋势调查于 2021 年 1 月至 3 月采用纸质和在线等多种方式进行：所有在美国（调查时）的 UMN SPH 校友，只要学校有其联系信息，都有资格完成调查。共有8817名校友收到了调查问卷，其中1966人做出了回复（回复率为22%）。主要结果测量指标：我们研究了不同时期毕业生第一份工作的行业比例、不同时期毕业生转换工作行业的比例以及不同时期毕业生第一份工作与公共卫生的密切程度：绝大多数毕业生表示他们的第一份工作与公共卫生 "有些相关 "或 "密切相关"，但与我们有数据的前几十年的毕业生相比，2010 年代的毕业生表示他们的第一份工作与公共卫生 "密切相关 "的比例较小：数据显示了一个值得注意的趋势：我们最近的公共卫生专业毕业生中，进入政府公共卫生机构的比例较低。尽管仍需要一个更具全国代表性的数据集，但我们的研究结果对于确定如何缓解许多公共卫生机构面临的人员配置困难而言，是向前迈出的关键一步。

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Journal of Public Health Management and Practice PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

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3.40

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9.10%

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287

期刊介绍： Journal of Public Health Management and Practice publishes articles which focus on evidence based public health practice and research. The journal is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed publication guided by a multidisciplinary editorial board of administrators, practitioners and scientists. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice publishes in a wide range of population health topics including research to practice; emergency preparedness; bioterrorism; infectious disease surveillance; environmental health; community health assessment, chronic disease prevention and health promotion, and academic-practice linkages.