Seven Years, 3 Surveys, a Changed World: The State Public Health Workforce 2014-2021.

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic and other public health challenges have increased the need for longitudinal data quantifying the changes in the state public health workforce.

Objective: To characterize the state of governmental public health workforce among state health agency (SHA) staff across the United States and provide longitudinal comparisons to 2 prior fieldings of the survey.

Design: State health agency leaders were invited to have their workforce to participate in PH WINS 2021.