FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Contents -- Summary and Assessment -- EXPLORING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WORKFORCE -- THE ROLE OF PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS -- FIELDS OF SPECIAL EMPHASIS -- ASSESSING DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS -- ADDRESSING THE WORKFORCE CRISIS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD -- IMPLICATIONS OF VISAS AND SELECT AGENT RESEARCH RESTRICTIONS -- IDENTIFYING PRIORITIES FOR THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES -- Appendix A--Authored Papers -- Implications of Restrictions on Foreign Students and Scientists for Infectious Disease Research, Ronald M. Atlas -- Training and Sustaining the Public Health Laboratory Workforce-Our First Line of Defense against Infectious Disease, Scott J. Becker -- Who Will Live in the "House of Genomics"?, Tara Acharya, Halla Thorsteinsdóttir, Peter A. Singer, and Abdallah S. Daar -- Public Health for All: Workforce Development through an Integrated Approach to Health Care Curricula, Walid El Ansari -- Stakeholders' Perceptions of Outcomes in Public Health Educational Partnerships, Walid El Ansari -- Health Protection: Communicable Disease, Public Health and Infection Control Educational Programmes-A Case Study from the UK, W. El-Ansari and S. Privett -- Addressing the Health Workforce Crisis in the Developing World, A. Edward Elmendorf -- Ensuring an Adequate Infectious Diseases Physician Response to Emerging Infections, Gary L. Gorby -- Addressing the Microbial Threat to Health: Training Ph.D. Scientists to Help Lead the Way, Martha L. Gray Scientists to Help Lead the Way, 143 Martha L. GrayOBIAL THREAT TO HEALTH: TRAINING Ph.D. SCIENTISTS TO HELP LEAD THE WAY Martha L. Gray, Ph.D. -- What Kinds of Scientists Do We Need to Train, and How?, Victoria McGovern -- Vaccines in the 21st Century, Stanley Plotkin.

Schools of Public Health: Meeting the Workforce Challenge of Emerging Infections, Margaret A. Potter -- U.S. Capacity to Confront Emerging Vector-Borne Pathogens, Andrew Spielman -- Appendix B--Workshop Agenda -- Appendix C--Forum Member Biographies.