Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016–2020): Role of Academic Institutions.
Objectives. To develop a diversity index (DI) comparing the diversity of graduates across public health schools and programs in the United States and to examine characteristics associated with institutions' graduate diversity. Methods. We analyzed longitudinal data from the Association of Schools an...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 113; no. 9; pp. 1000 - 1009 |
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