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Guest Editors’ Message: Hawaiʻi’s Public Health Workforce
Tetine Sentell, PhD, Lola Irvin, MEd, Rebekah Rodericks, MSc, Jordan Marshall,MPH, May Rose Dela Cruz, DrPH, Donna-Marie Palakiko, PhD, APRN, Jessica Yamauchi, MA, EMBA, Laura Reichhardt, MS, AGPCNP-BC, FAAN, Camonia Graham-Tutt, PhD, Janet Berreman, MD, MPH, Lance Ching, MPH, PhD, Kelley Withy, MD, PhD, Alden Henderson, MPH, PhD, Simone Schmid, PhD, Eric Hurwitz, PhD, Jermy Domingo, DrPH

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):74-77. https://doi.org/10.62547/RMGI1840
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Issue Overview: Public Health Workforce Development in Hawai?i: Building a Post Pandemic Future to Achieve Health Equity
Tam HT Fukuyama BS; Breea R Yamat BS; Jinichi Tokeshi MD

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):59-61. https://doi.org/10.62547/NDRM8747
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Importance of Building the Public Health Workforce: Commentary by the Hawaiʻi Public Health Infrastructure Grant Workforce Director to Introduce the Special Issue on Public Health Workforce Development in Hawaiʻi Awareness as Native Hawaiians
Scott Murakami, MAcc, MBA, CWDP

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):85-87. https://doi.org/10.62547/CWGK94522
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Quantifying the Public Health Workforce for Hawaiʻi: Current Data, Measurement Complexities, and Conceptual Frameworks for Next Steps
Tetine Sentell, PhD, Janet M. Berreman, MD, MPH, Laura Reichhardt, MS, APRN, FAAN, Aimee Grace, MD, MPH, Jessica Yamauchi, MA, EMBA, Jordan Marshall, MPH, Kelley Withy, MD

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):88-96. https://doi.org/10.62547/HRNZ2940
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The Environmental Health Workforce in Hawaiʻi: Current Status and Recommendations for Improvement
Rosana Hernández Weldon, PhD, MPH, Catherine Pirkle, PhD, MSc

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):97-106. https://doi.org/10.62547/WXTF9814
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Strategies for Building a Dementia-Capable Workforce in Hawaiʻi
Christy Nishita, PhD, Kevin Y. Kawamoto, LSW

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):107-114. https://doi.org/10.62547/IYAX3749
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Social Work Workforce, Licensing, and Hawaiʻi: An Overview
Robin G. Arndt, MSW, LSW, Clifford S. Bersamira, PhD, AM, Theresa M. Kreif, MSW, LSW, Rebecca L. Stotzer, PhD, MSW, MS

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):115-120. https://doi.org/10.62547/VRSI2555
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Assuring the “Public” in “Public Health”: Developing Workforce Capacity, Diversity, and Connectedness at the Department of Public Health Sciences
Jeanelle Sugimoto-Matsuda, DrPH, Denise C. Nelson-Hurwitz, PhD, Jane J. Chung-Do, DrPH, Mapuana C. K. Antonio, DrPH, Elizabeth McFarlane, PhD, Eric Hurwitz, PhD, Kathryn L. Braun,DrPH

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):121-128. https://doi.org/10.62547/DJUU3671
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An Evaluation of the Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health Summer Health Academy
Mapuana C. K. Antonio, DrPH, Yasmeen Latore, DNP, Samantha Keaulana, PhD, Ashlea Gillon, MPH, PhD, Nicole Cristobal, PhD, Amber Granite, MPH, Silvera Erari, PhD, Pauline Mcfall, MPH, PhD, Māhealani Taitague-Laforga, BPH, Naneaokeola Siu, BPH, Ki‘ilaweau Aweau, MPH, Daniel Gracia, BA, Jane J. Chung-Do, DrPH

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):129-138. https://doi.org/10.62547/JVEP6407
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Building the Future of Public Health Workforce: Comprehensive Internship Program at Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute
Rie Kuhaulua, PsyD, MPH, Jessica Yamauchi, MA, EMBA

Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2025;84(7):139-142. https://doi.org/10.62547/FLOJ3448
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