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The New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine has advocated for more public health medicine training positions for several years. Because of the scope of public health, workforce development also requires more people skilled in areas such as epidemiology and statistics, geospatial epidemiology, social marketing, informatics and emergency management. First and foremost, this must achieve health equity for Maori. Public health needs capital infrastructure investment to deliver information systems and workforce development to meet current demands, as well as an increase in baseline funding for both national (Ministry of Health and ESR), and regional (public health unit) service delivery.