ObjectiveIn the context of COVID-19 prevention and control, to summarize the current situation of the public health personnel team development against the pandemic at a county-level center for disease control and prevention (CDC) in Shanghai’s extra-large urban area, to analyze and summarize the current situation and existing problems of the public health personnel team of the district and county-level CDCs, and to propose measures to strengthen and improve the development.MethodsTaking the Shanghai Pudong New Area Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which serves a population of 5.68 millions, as an example, through information access, individual interviews, questionnaires, holding symposiums, etc., combined with the deployment of personnel in the handling of the COVID-19, we described the Pudong New Area CDC’s talent team characteristics, personnel recruitment and loss, and investigated the factors affecting the construction of talent team.ResultsFrom 2014 to 2020, Pudong CDC recruited 115 people, and 65.71% of them chose to work there. 68 people resigned, with an average of 6.8 people leaving every year, with a fluctuating upward trend in resignation rate (χ2=0.158,P