Linking Agency Accreditation to Workforce Credentialing

In Brief The Management Moment” is a regular column within the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Edward L. Baker, MD, MPH, MSc, is serving as the Management Moment Editor. Dr Baker is Director of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, School of Public Health, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This column provides commentary and guidance on timely management issues commonly encountered in public health practice. The authors discuss linking workforce credentialing to agency accreditation in order to strengthen the public health organization workforce. Developing standards and guidelines to benchmark workforce credentialing and formalizing incentives seem to be the next steps along the way.