This week, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health released a study in the American Journal of Public Health that identified 1,499 unique reports of harassment across local health departments in the US during the first 11 months of the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to January 2021.
The study found that 57% of the surveyed local health departments had been targets of harassment. During the study period, 222 public health officials left their positions and over one-third of those departures involved officials who had experienced some type of harassment. The researchers used NACCHO’s Forces of Change survey of local health departments as a main data source.
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