Today's public health workforce, faced with daunting public health challenges, has been forced to do more with fewer people. According to the ASPH report, this impending public health workforce crisis is "a culmination of already documented and forecasted shortages of public health physicians, public health nurses, epidemiologists, health care educators, and administrators and other contributing factors like an expected spike in retirement." The ASPH report represents an effort to try and forecast current and future public health needs.