In order to understand the changes in the allocation of public health talents in China in the past 16 years, including the current situation and problems in terms of quantity, institutions and sub-disciplines, inter-regions, and personnel structure, provide suggestions for optimizing the allocation. This paper uses the 2003-2019 Health Statistics Yearbook to describe and analyze the composition of sub-disciplinary practicing (assistant) physicians, the composition of medical and health institutions, and the personnel of professional public health institutions. The results found that the proportion of talents in professional public health institutions is small and declining year by year, and the gap with the number of clinical talents has been widening. The proportion of talents in disease control and health supervision institutions has declined, and the proportion of talents in maternal and child health hospitals has increased sharply, exceeding 50%; The personnel of the Health Education Institute have long been in a position. In terms of regional distribution, the number of public health physicians per thousand population is the best in the east, followed by the west, and the lowest in the middle. The gap between the east and the central and western regions is large. The proportion of talents with more than 30 years of work experience in the CDC is large, and the proportion of highly educated talents is small, and high-end talents are lost. It is recommended to increase the staff of relevant departments for the prevention and control of infectious diseases, coordinate the health technical personnel between health institutions and regions, strengthen the training of public health personnel, and strengthen the quality of public health personnel.