by Erika Martin, PhD, MPH Surviving your dissertation and the job market requires a secret sauce of excellent research, strong work ethic, and effective project
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Academic Job Interview, Part I: Getting the Interview
by Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS, FACSM The Scholarship of Public Health addresses topics relevant to scientific publishing, dissemination of evidence and best practices, and
Who Rocked Public Health in 2018? You Tell Us
Students Who Rocked Public Health 2018 For the past two years, we have featured students rocking public health in our popular monthly series of the
MPH Student Documents the Lives of Stone Breakers in India in New Film
by Shubharanjan Jena Students of Public Health: Voices & Profiles focuses on research projects and other contributions students are making to advance public health. Student Voices
Child Development-Community Policing: How One Local Health Department Joins Local Police on the Front Line in the War on ACEs
by Stacey Butler, LCSW, and Gibbie Harris, MSPH, BSN, RN The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC) is a forum for the leaders of America’s largest metropolitan health
Halloween by the Numbers
by Jason S. Brinkley, PhD, MA, MS On the Brink addresses topics related to data, analytics, and visualizations on personal health and public health research. This
Data Talks and Hearsay Walks: Health Informatics and Social Determinants of Health
by Gulzar H. Shah, PhD, MStat, MS, and Wu Xu, MS, PhD Introducing Health Informatics Innovations and Applications, a new series that highlights ways that health
Play on Both Teams: Become a Public Health Pracademic (Part 2)
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Five Things to Know About CDC’s 6|18 Initiative
by Laura C. Seeff, MD; Tricia McGinnis, MPP, MPH; Hilary Heishman, MPH As the US health care system undergoes dynamic change, increased alignment between health
School Health Alliance Mobile Medical Unit Is Keeping Students Healthy, Fit, and Ready to Learn
by Camelia Singletary, MPH, and Elena Vidrascu, MSc Mobile Medical Unit Background Mobile Medical Units were pioneered by the Children’s Health Fund (CHF) over 30
New Tutorial: How to Write the Methods Section of a Scientific Article
This new tutorial helps you write the methods section of a scientific article. Dr. Justin B. Moore shares writing advice in his column The Scholarship of Public Health.
New Tutorial: How to Write the Discussion Section of a Scientific Article
This new tutorial helps you write the discussion section of a scientific article. In a recent post in Dr. Justin B. Moore’s column The Scholarship of Public Health, he
Infographic: Effectiveness of Dual Dispatch to Cardiac Arrest Policy
The policy in Houston, Texas, is to dual dispatch medically trained firefighters in addition to emergency medical services (EMS) units to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases. While believed to improve public
Through Haiti: How a Natural Disaster Disproportionately Affects Populations with Lower Socioeconomic Status
by Jayda Melnitsky Public Health Commentaries by Students is the result of a classroom writing assignment by Dr. Erika Martin at the University at Albany-SUNY who required students to write a
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New Public Health Approaches to Infectious Disease Threats
by Lloyd F. Novick, MD, MPH The November-December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice focuses on new public health approaches to
For Public Health Workers, Voting Is a Professional Responsibility
by Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS On November 6th the United States will hold the 2018 midterm elections. Midterm elections are notoriously low-turnout elections, with
