I started my Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program reluctantly with a course on leadership in the summer of 2017. As I sat in the opening lecture, I was impatient to get to the quantitative classes, like biostatistics, epidemiology, and demography. I believed, at the time, that developing my technical and research skills were all I needed to advance my
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We knew a pandemic was coming. Yet we were not prepared. How can we avoid this failure in the face of other looming issues, like climate change? This post originally appeared on The Healthiest Goldfish with Sandro Galea and is republished here with permission from the author. Learn more at SandroGalea.org. A few weeks ago, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known
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The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice understands and respects the critical importance of inclusive language in reporting race and ethnicity in scientific writing and strives to adhere to the guidance of the AMA Manual of Style, which has recently updated its recommendations to reflect fairness, equity, consistency, and clarity in the literature. Clear, precise word choice and usage
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My new commentary “Conquering the Health Disparities of Structural Racism,” published in a special supplement of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, presents best practices for mitigating the effects of structural racism on the social determinants of health and thus, health disparities. Policies, processes, and systems rooted in racist ideologies, like redlining, and school segregation directly impact the health
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We built stakeholder trust and engagement through a series of interviews and group discussions and used results to design a responsive strategy for cross-sector data sharing. Solutions to complex public health challenges are increasingly reliant on cross-sector collaboration between public health, healthcare, governmental and nonprofit entities. Data sharing can broaden the scope of work and improve the collective impact of
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How a progressive, forward-looking public health can learn from old ideas—from religion, philosophy, and inherited cultural knowledge—to be more effective. This post originally appeared on The Healthiest Goldfish with Sandro Galea and is republished here with permission from the author. Learn more at SandroGalea.org. As we prepare for Thanksgiving this week, I have been reflecting on the importance of tradition, and how we
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“Responding to a public health crisis requires decisive action, near unity, and a readiness to adapt as we learn about what causes the disease to spread and about what actions can minimize that spread.” (1) Two years into this pandemic, we have painfully learned how COVID-19 spreads and the actions of vaccination and wearing masks can minimize that spread. Decisive
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The Public Health National Center for Innovations at PHAB is one of seven All In partners who came together to host its fifth annual All In National Meeting (AINM) earlier this month. Bringing together hundreds of practitioners, community members and other people, the AINM offered spaces to examine learnings and practical examples from the field, to hear and learn from
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Public health is naturally, and correctly, aligned with the needs of the people. How can this open the door to an effective populist public health approach? This post originally appeared on The Healthiest Goldfish with Sandro Galea and is republished here with permission from the author. Learn more at SandroGalea.org. Ever since roughly 2015, much has been written about populism. The catalyst for this was three political
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Nominations for Students Who Rocked Public Health 2021 are being now accepted through Dec. 31, 2021. Send us yours now! Guidelines All nominees must be currently enrolled students pursuing an undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral degree in public health or a related field. Projects may be ongoing but should have gotten underway in 2021, not before. Projects may involve groups of
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