ASPH is engaged in various projects to address the pathways to increasing the quality of public health practitioners, expanding the pool of public health practitioners, and raising awareness of the added value of public health skills to most any professional field.   These activities are based on the premise that the public health workforce, which involves both practitioners and faculty, is a key issue to stregthening the infrastructure.  The following are the 3 objectives programs that seek to strengthen public health awareness and pathways to practice.

1) Enhance Workforce Quality through Improved Training and Teaching
The training of public health professionals is often removed from the practice of public health; trainees are often ill prepared for employment in health departments. 

2) Increase Workforce Quantity and Diversity
An alarming shortage of public health workers exists at the state and local health departments and is compounded by the fact that racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the public health professions. 

3) Expand Awareness of Public Health
The vital nature of public health functions and services are neither recognized by the national community (e.g., food and water safety), nor valued by other professional fields as functional knowledge that enhances and complements career areas such as law, medicine, nursing, engineering, anthropology, and more.