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The missions of public health and community colleges bind them intimately to their service areas. Programs delivered by both members are influenced by the health and educational needs in the communities they serve. This alignment of missions supports a vision for greater cross-sectoral collaborations between public health and community colleges to advance improvements in health and education. Doing so has mutual benefits for both sectors while also supporting the achievement of national goals. A particular area ripe for exploration is on strengthening the public health workforce through the expansion of U.S. community college offerings in this discipline. Enhanced public health workforce skills increase the probability of achieving population health improvement goals of the Affordable Care Act as well as for strengthening community capacity so urgently needed to stimulate thriving communities across the United States.

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public health and community colleges public health workforce Affordable Care Act goals

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