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Monthly Archives: December 2021

Health Administration Research for the Future: Building on 5 Years of Progress

Posted on December 29, 2021 by jphmpdirect

The APHA Health Administration Section Public Health Management to Practice Series focuses on current and relevant issues, concepts, and events that emphasize health administration from all disciplinary perspectives as both art and science. In October, the APHA Health Administration Section hosted a virtual roundtable at the 2021 APHA annual meeting (a blend of online and on-site sessions) to highlight the

Now Is the Time for the Foundational Public Health Services

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Travis Parker Lee

The conversation about the FPHS requires consideration of how they align with public health accreditation and how both can be used in transformation efforts. In a post-COVID-19 pandemic world, have you wondered what governmental public health will look like, how public health departments and practitioners can be best prepared to combat the next crisis, and how the field can continue

A Conversation with 2021 Research to Practice Award Winner Soumya Upadhyay

Posted on December 27, 2021 by jphmpdirect

Congratulations to Dr. Soumya Upadhyay, the 2021 Research to Practice Award winner! Dr. Upadhyay was presented the award at a ceremony in October during the APHA annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, for her winning abstract “Do patient engagement IT functionalities influence patient safety outcomes.” APHA Health Administration Section Chair (2020-21) Michele McCay, DrPH, MPH, presided over the ceremony and presented

Perspective Transformation on Structural Racism: Learning to See Racism

Posted on December 22, 2021 by jphmpdirect

Understanding how different groups experience Perspective Transformation can help advance efforts to promote health equity. A new article published in a special JPHMP supplement, Public Health Interventions to Address Health Disparities Associated with Structural Racism, highlights a concept known as perspective transformation. Perspective transformation centers on “the idea that once a person knows, think[s], and believes something different, they will

Infographic: Community Resilience: A Dynamic Model for Public Health 3.0

Posted on December 21, 2021 by Wendy Ellis, William Dietz, Daniel Chen

Community Resilience as a framework for Public Health 3.0 to address structural racism, foster equity, and improve population health. The article, “Community Resilience: A Dynamic Model for Public Health 3.0” presents an innovative model for Chief Health Strategists to measure and define place-based community resilience. The paper describes methods for measuring equity and addressing structural racism as a public health

Public Health Within Reason

Posted on December 20, 2021 by Sandro Galea

The Healthiest Goldfish with Sandro Galea

On pausing The Healthiest Goldfish and looking ahead to the new year. 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 bit of an opening announcement: This is going to be the last regular weekly Healthiest Goldfish. When I started The Healthiest Goldfish, my aim was to write

The next generation: The kids are (probably) alright

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Sandro Galea

In the past few years, we have witnessed a seismic generational shift. An argument for why the next generation is, in fact, (almost) all right. 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. “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show

Mischaracterization of a Misadventure = Misinformation

Posted on December 7, 2021 by John S. Marr and John T. Cathey

Authors of “The Yellow Fever Vaccine Misadventure of 1942” respond to a tweet by Candace Owens. Exactly 80 years ago today, war with Japan was imminent. The US Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor had been attacked; the Japanese surrounded Shanghai, and the Germans already had a foothold in Africa. The yellow fever vaccination campaign, initiated in 1941, was expedited after

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Sectarianism and the Public’s Health

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Sandro Galea

How do our country’s fractious regional and political identities create challenges and opportunities for health? 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 recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that Americans who have not been vaccinated are now three times likelier to lean Republican than to lean Democrat.

Climate Crisis & Structural Racism — Peas in a Pod: Urgent Need for Climate Competent Care as a Structural Competency to Advance Climate Medicine

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Ans Irfan, Kelly Maloney, Roger Pattani

It is critical to approach climate medicine with a structural lens rather than a narrowly focused approach of climate-health knowledge alone that does not connect this existential threat to the broader socio-political ecosystem in which we function. Climate negotiations (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, this November were some of the most consequential in human history in determining our collective path forward