The Wide World of Public Health Systems is a regular series in which JP Leider and colleagues from the University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Systems discuss issues of public health workforce, finance, policy, and infrastructure.

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JP Leider, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Public Health Systems at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and a member of the JPHMP Editorial Board. He is available at leider (at) umn (dot) edu.

Read all columns in this series:

• It’s Been Quite a Week in Legislation for the Public Health Workforce