Heather Krasna, PhD

Heather Krasna is a public health workforce researcher, higher education career services practitioner, career coach, and author. She is co-author of 101+ Careers in Public Health, 3rd Edition, and author of Jobs That Matter: Find a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service, as well as author of 22 academic journal articles on the public health workforce.

She is Site Principal Investigator on a 5-year, $4.35 million HRSA Research Grant HRSA-22-054 Health Workforce Research Center Cooperative Agreement Program via Consortium for Public Health Workforce Research at University of Minnesota (C-WORPH) and a five-year, $250,000 per year National Center for STLT Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health CDC-RFA-PW-24-00800101SUPP24, Implementing Public Health Law Curriculum in Accredited SPPH Work. Via the Region II Public Health Training Center, she provides training to health departments and national public health organizations on strategic hiring approaches and recruitment marketing. Her research focuses on employment outcomes of public health graduates, labor market competition for graduates, workforce taxonomies, occupational code, salary disparities, and the governmental public health workforce.

As Associate Dean of Career and Professional Development at Columbia Mailman, she leads efforts to ensure positive post-graduate outcomes for Mailman students. She has more than 25 years' experience in providing individual career advising to students and professionals from backgrounds including elected officials, university faculty and staff, senior researchers, nonprofit and government executives, career changers, and others.