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Dr. Abigail Gamble Discusses Healthy Child and Maternal Outcomes for Teen Moms in Mississippi

Posted on August 16, 2019 by jphmpdirect Leave a comment

by Camelia Singletary, MPH 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 this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Dr. Abigail Gamble joins the show to talk about her community-engaged research that focuses

Diversifying Data: A Precision Medicine Approach to Improving Health Outcomes

Posted on August 15, 2019 by jphmpdirect Leave a comment

by Kimberly Rodgers, MA, and Gulzar Shah, PhD, MStat, MS Health Informatics Innovations and Applications highlights ways that health informatics innovations and applications are supporting stakeholders in public health practice and policy to advance their mission of improved population health. The series will also highlight innovations in health care informatics. America spends more than double on health care per person

The Free Prescription Doctors Are Writing to Lower Anxiety and Stress

Posted on August 14, 2019 by jphmpdirect Leave a comment

by Elena Vidrascu, MSc Preventing America’s Next Drug Epidemic: A Multidisciplinary Approach is a series designed to introduce the many facets of substance abuse, and how integrating the work of multiple partners may be the best approach towards prevention and treatment. You don’t need to go to Walmart to get this prescription filled. It’s all around us, yet we miss

Crafting Richer Messages and Being More Credible Messengers

Posted on August 12, 2019 by jphmpdirect One comment

by Ed Baker, MSc, MD, MPH Drawing upon the popular column published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Management Moments with Public Health Leaders is a new series appearing bimonthly on JPHMP Direct and will consist of video interviews with authors appearing in the column. Public health makes life easier for people. That, we know. But convincing populations

Investing Early to Prevent Hepatitis A Outbreaks Among People Living Homeless

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jphmpdirect Leave a comment

by Patty Hayes, RN, MN This post is published with permission from Big Cities Health Coalition and originally appeared on the Front Lines Blog. Please visit Big Cities Health Coalition and the Front Lines Blog for more information about the work they’re doing to improve population health. In recent years, urban areas in the US have been grappling with hepatitis A

Are Health Professional Worksites Promoting Well-being?

Posted on August 2, 2019 by jphmpdirect Leave a comment

by Jay Maddock, PhD Mad About Public Health is a series that looks at the health of populations from varying creative and innovative perspectives. This post looks at worksite well-being. You might also enjoy Dr. Maddock’s previous series, From the Dean’s Perspective. As public health professionals, many of us spend our time trying to get people to be healthier, move

Improving Birth Outcomes: Shifting the Narrative

Posted on August 1, 2019 by jphmpdirect Leave a comment

by Camelia Singletary, MPH William Moore is a Health Educator with Saint Paul – Ramsey County Public Health, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, who was recently named as one of the 40 Under 40 in Public Health by the de Beaumont Foundation. Moore is one of the first men in Minnesota to be certified as a birth attendant and breastfeeding educator

Role of Data in Promoting Diversity & Inclusion in Public Health Institutions of Higher Education

Posted on July 25, 2019 by jphmpdirect One comment

by Gulzar H. Shah, PhD, MStat, MS; and Kristie C. Waterfield, DrPH, MBA Health Informatics Innovations and Applications highlights ways that health informatics innovations and applications are supporting stakeholders in public health practice and policy to advance their mission of improved population health. The series will also highlight innovations in health care informatics. data diversity higher education In this podcast,

Improving Health for African-American Women in Columbus, Ohio: An Interview with Dr. Mysheika Roberts

Posted on July 16, 2019 by jphmpdirect One comment

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC) is a forum for the leaders of America’s largest metropolitan health departments to exchange strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the 62 million people they serve. Together, these public health officials directly affect the health and well-being of one in six Americans. The BCHC is affiliated

We R-Naught Ready for an Epidemic

Posted on June 24, 2019 by jphmpdirect One comment

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 column explores current practices in the health arena and how both the data and mathematical sciences have an impact. (The opinions and views represented here are the author’s own and do not reflect any

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