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NACCHO Book Club: The Butchering Art-Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
by Emily Yox, MPH Each month, NACCHO brings you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. Book reviews in this series originally appeared on NACCHO Voice: The Word on
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Revised 10 Essential Public Health Services Framework Centers Equity and Propels the Field into the 21st Century
by Naomi Rich On September 9, 2020, the Public Health National Center for Innovations (PHNCI), de Beaumont Foundation, and a Task Force of public health experts revealed a revised 10
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Excess Mortality as a Canary in the Coal Mine for COVID Disparities
by JP Leider and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Minnesota has been in the news in recent months, for all the wrong reasons. The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer
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Students Who Rocked Public Health — Jennifer Bender
by Jennifer Bender Last December, Jennifer Bender, an MPH student at Des Moines University, was listed as one of 13 Students Who Rocked Public Health in 2019 for helping to
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Immediate Impact of Volunteers in the COVID-19 Response
by Dawn Carmen Sibor I have spent more than 25 years working in local public health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, currently serving as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts
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Responding to the Homeless Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from King County, WA
by Herbert C. Duber, MD, MPH COVID-19 presents challenges to many vulnerable and underserved communities. This is particularly true of individuals living homeless, a population that faces unique challenge to
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PHRASES Offers New Tools for Talking About Public Health
by Sheryl Monks It’s been said that when public health is working, nothing happens because the 3 Ps upon which public health rests, according to C.E.A. Winslow’s definition —
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Vaccines and History: Important Lessons as We Look for a COVID-19 Cure
by Sheryl Monks The race to find a cure for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is heating up around the world as countries battle to see which one can
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The Editor’s Podcast: Evidence-Based Public Health
by Lloyd F. Novick, MD, MPH The Editor’s Podcast with Dr. Lloyd F. Novick appears with each new issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and offers
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For Combating COVID-19, Collaboration Is Key
by Ruby Barnard-Mayers, MPH The COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United States during my last semester at the Boston University School of Public Health. By March of 2020, I was
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