Success Unveiled: Discover the Highlights from Our KPHA Workforce Development Booth Survey!

The Kentucky Department for Public Health’s (KDPH) Center for Foundational Health (C4FH) and the Education and Workforce Development Branch (EWD) partnered with the Kentucky Public Health Association's (KPHA) Workforce Development Committee to sponsor the Workforce Development (WFD) Exhibitor Booth at the 2024 Annual KPHA Conference in Louisville, KY, from March 6-8, 2024. The goal was to heighten awareness of career-enhancing prospects and highlight the collaborative efforts in recruiting, training, and sustaining a competent and diverse response-ready public health workforce for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. During the conference, participants had the opportunity to meet with key representatives from KDPH, KPHA, Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), University of Kentucky (UK), and University of Louisville (UofL). Staff manning the WFD Exhibitor Booth provided information to participants on public health career opportunities, upcoming leadership trainings, and workforce development initiatives happening across Kentucky.

Participants also had the opportunity to complete a survey titled, “KPHA Workforce Development Exhibitor Booth Survey” and become eligible to win a $500.00 scholarship incentive through the Heath Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Public Health Scholarship Program and/or an “I Love Public Health” mug. As a result of completing the survey, one person won the scholarship incentive, and three persons won a “I Love Public Health” mug. Based upon the thirty-five persons who completed the survey, 100% of them reported that visiting the WFD Booth increased their awareness of existing WFD opportunities and that the KPHA Conference was beneficial to their public health career!