Calls for reform in public health education over the last 100 years have focused on the practical training and education of physicians, the group that dominated the public health workforce in the early 20th century.1,2 A central argument for reform is that for practitioners to be effective in protecting and promoting health, professional education needs to keep pace with current and evolving challenges. Fried and colleagues2 identify globalization and urbanization as challenges facing today’s public health workforce, which now includes a broad range of practitioners focused on population-level prevention and interventions that address the determinants of health rather than the treatment of disease.
