Developing the public health practitioner workforce in England: Lessons from theory and practice

We also conclude that leadership and vision at a national level, combined with local implementation of evidence-based training programme such as the one described could help to achieve much greater and more rapid progress in skilling up the existing public health practitioner workforce than has been possible up to now. But we note that this requires sustained investment, robust sector-wide delivery frameworks, and a group of committed local public health champions.