JPHMP Direct offers original columns from today’s leading public health experts in a wide variety of topic areas.

Advocacy

• Preventing America’s Next Drug Epidemic: A Multidisciplinary Approach — Elenva Vidrascu, MSc

Career Development

• PhD Hacks: Strategic Management for Your Doctoral Studies — Erika Martin, PhD, MPH
• Public Health Pracademics — Molly Gutilla, DrPH, MS
• Students of Public Health: Student Voices and Profiles
• The Dean’s Perspective — Jay E. Maddock, PhD, FAAHB
• The Scholarship of Public Health — Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS, FACSM

Case Examples

• Backstories in Epidemiology: True Medical Mysteries
• Cross-Sector Collaboration in Accra, Ghana

Policy

• Crossroads: Law and Public Health — Elizabeth Van Nostrand, JD, and Tina Batra Hershey, JD, MPH
• Public Health Ethics

Practice and Management

• Academic Public Health Practice
• Big Cities Health Coalition 
• Boots on the Ground: Narratives from Today’s Local Public Health Workforce — Cynthia Morrow, MD, MPH
• Focus on Accreditation & Innovation — PHAB Members
• Health Informatics Innovations and Applications — Gulzar Shaw, PhD, MStat, MS
• Management Moments: Interviews with Leaders — Edward Baker, MD, MPH, MSc
• On the Brink: At the Intersection of Data & Health — Jason S. Brinkley, PhD, MA, MS
• Profiles in Public Health Practice