This special issue of Health Promotion Practice features the achievements and activities of the Public Health Training Centers (PHTCs) to strengthen the skills of the public health workforce. There are currently 37 PHTCs funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), each housed in academic settings with an accredited school or program of public health (HRSA, 2012). The PHTCs represent one of the significant efforts to address the challenge of assuring that the public health workforce has the necessary skills to respond to a wide range of continually changing community health needs and expectations. The intention of this special issue is to demonstrate the value to date of the PHTC investment in public health workforce training and also to contribute to the body of knowledge about public health workforce training so that future training activities can build on the models and strategies used and on the lessons learned from the experience of the PHTCs.
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