JPHMP presents Public Health Perspectives, a podcast series targeted towards strengthening the future public health workforce. We will explore the narratives of public health care professionals and gain insight on career paths that shape the profession. In our journey, we will use JPHMP’s 21 Public Health Case Studies on Policy & Administration, which provides case studies that help students and practitioners connect with real life experiences. These case studies explore core problems, stakeholders, steps taken, challenges, results, conclusions, and discussion questions for analysis that can be used to strengthen the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation criteria that form the foundation of public health degrees.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, we speak with Dr. Allison Chamberlain,  Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA, and an epidemiology consultant with the Fulton County Board of Health located in the heart of Atlanta. An infectious disease epidemiologist by training, her research focuses on promotion of preventive health interventions like vaccines and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV. She also has a background in public health preparedness and is currently the Acting Director of the Emory Center for Public Health Preparedness. In summer 2016, she had the opportunity to interview staff at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) regarding their response to the history-making 2015 Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak in the Bronx. Her case study on DOHMH’s response to this event was published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice in July 2017 and included as a chapter in JPHMP’s 21 Public Health Case Studies on Policy & Administration. Dr. Chamberlain discusses the legionella disease outbreak in NYC, how she became an epidemiology consultant for the Fulton County Board of Health, and the work she has done with her students in bridging the gap between practice and research.

For further reading, consider these related articles from the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice:*  Allison Chamberlain podcast

• The 2015 New York City Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak: A Case Study on a History-Making Outbreak
• Legionellosis on the Rise: A Review of Guidelines for Prevention in the United States
• Implementation of a Legionella Ordinance for Multifamily Housing, Garland, Texas
• Lessons Learned From the 2007 to 2009 Haemophilus influenzae Type B Vaccine Shortage: Implications for Future Vaccine Shortages and Public Health Preparedness
• Use of Obstetric Practice Web Sites to Distribute Zika Virus Information to Pregnant Women During a Zika Virus Outbreak

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Camelia Singletary, MPH, received her master’s degree in public health from the University of South Carolina in 2015. Her research interests include exploring the implementation of school physical activity programs in combination with nutritional components. She is also interested in analyzing the adoption of physical activity and healthy eating skills from a social-cognitive perspective. As a public health communicator at JPHMP Direct, she hopes to create linkages between evidence-based research, public health coursework, and health certification competencies