New local health officials: health departments’ newest leaders
Providing professional supports to new LHOs and addressing recruitment and retention challenges facing public health leadership can help ensure that the senior executive level of the public health workforce reflects the diverse and varied populations that it serves.
Authors
- Jonathon P. Leider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9905-476X)
- Chelsey Kirkland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1586-6766)
- Timothy C. McCall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9275-1842)
- Krishna Patel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0512-8444)
- Noah Yee Westfall
Institutions
- University of Minnesota (US)
- National Association of County and City Health Officials (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- Minnesota Department of Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Published
- 2025-05-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1597909
- Primary Topic
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00