<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><post link="https://sph.umich.edu/podcast/2026posts/sustaining-the-public-health-workforce-student-debt-service-and-solutions.html" display="true" featured="true"><title>Sustaining the public health workforce: Student debt, service, and solutions</title><subject/><subtitle/><description>Laura Power talks with Brian Castrucci and JP Leider about student loan debt’s impact on governmental public health workers, risks to community support, and policy solutions to ease debt and strengthen the workforce.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:04 -0800</pubDate><tags><talking-about>Big Data</talking-about><talking-about>Professional Development</talking-about><talking-about>Practice</talking-about><talking-about>Policy</talking-about><talking-about>Research</talking-about></tags><image><img src="/podcast/images/web-1005x525-laura-brian-jp_01.webp" alt="Laura Power, Brian Castrucci and JP Leider's headshots, framed within a teal oval on a white and blue patterned background."/></image><imagelarge><img/></imagelarge></post>