We are all public health

Abstract

I view librarians of most types as part of the public health workforce. The circle of essential public health services (Figure 1) divides public health work into ten essential areas. One of these is to “inform, educate, and empower” people about health issues [1]. Clearly this role fits the training, expertise, and inclination of most librarians. Also, Banks et al. have shown the competencies of health sciences librarianship and public health to be complementary and have offered examples of libraries' collaborations and services to public health that suggest librarians can be considered full members of the public health workforce [2].

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