The digitalization of society is transforming health systems, presenting opportunities for using digital technologies to improve population health. Essential Public Health Operation Seven is about ensuring a competent public health workforce, which is crucial for delivering effective public health services. Digital public health has the potential to transform and revolutionize public health, but it also presents a set of new challenges for the public health workforce. This chapter examines the influence of digital technologies on the public health workforce and explores the challenges and opportunities for workforce development. It discusses factors needed to strengthen the public health workforce in the digital era, such as the role of competency-based education and interdisciplinary collaboration. A key component of the public health workforce is early career professionals. This chapter discusses mechanisms for engaging early career professionals in developing digital public health policies and approaches to cultivating future public health leaders in the digital era. Finally, the chapter discusses the importance of creating an ethical dimension to competency-based education for the public health workforce. This is particularly important in the digital era, given the rapid evolution of technologies and potential ethical concerns associated with digital public health.