Departments Have Done Little to Assess the Sufficiency of Their Veterinarian Workforces across Their Component Agencies

Even though their component agencies identified concerns about their veterinarian workforces, officials from both USDA and HHS told us that they have not undertaken a departmentwide assessment of these workforces to gain a broader perspective on trends and shared issues. In contrast, DOD has a process for such an assessment. Our prior work has found that top-level management needs to be involved in order for strategic workforce planning to be effective.⁶