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This report discusses the perspectives of 17 key informant experts on how the emergency medical services (EMS) and community paramedic (CP) workforces responded to COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic and how well-being challenges continue to affect these workforces.

This article compares rural and urban local public health workforces, including competencies and training needs, COVID-19 impact, and turnover risk.

This policy brief describes workforce challenges faced by rural health care delivery systems and how pre-pandemic financial instability in rural health care facilities may have contributed to the challenges experienced by the rural health workforce during the pandemic. Available federal pandemic funding to address rural health workforce needs is also discussed.

This report examines the extent to which EMS professionals perform skills that correspond to the national Model credential levels and discusses variations in adherence to Model guidelines between agencies serving rural versus urban populations and agencies with volunteer versus paid staffing models.

This article discusses a study that evaluated whether exposure to a brief online course on implicit bias increased bias awareness for health providers.