The development of legislation as a part of policy formulation begins by first clarifying a central problem or opportunity for improvement (OFI), which is what you will be doing in Part 1 of your MAP.

• Chapter 18: The Public Health Workforce

Note: If you do not wish to use one of the topics listed above, you may request a special topic of interest from your professor with a justification as to why it is more appropriate to your career and academic goals to study another topic.Second, your paper should meet the criteria below as you clarify your problem or OFI.

• Clearly describe the problem or OFI you chose for your MAP.
• Why is it important to set an agenda to resolve this problem right now?
• What are the consequences of not resolving this problem right now?
• Explain how using evidence-based public health (EBPH) will help resolve this problem.

This part of the course project should be a minimum of three pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.