A specialized consortium for childcare and educational settings that is well-staffed, well-trained, and well-funded can provide essential and timely public health response, support, and infectious disease training and education to reduce transmission within these settings.
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Public health agencies can prevent infectious diseases among people experiencing homelessness by strengthening partnerships, improving data systems and identifying the most pressing health needs of this population.
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Community benefit reporting is intended to promote nonprofit hospital accountability, but current policies reduce transparency.
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Local sick leave laws are successful in increasing the number of workers who are paid when they need to miss work for health reasons; however, some groups do not fully benefit, and localities should thus focus on ensuring benefits reach all workers.
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This research underscores the importance of enhancing health communication education in Canadian MPH programs to ensure graduates are equipped to tackle modern and complex public health challenges.
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Nearly 19 percent of NYS nonprofit hospitals sampled identify environmental pollution as a priority community health need however, once identified, hospitals do not go on to address these needs.
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Critical success factors of good leadership development models emerged from an evaluation of the Emerging Leaders in Public Health program at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.
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We demonstrate how social media data can help researchers and policymakers understand how the public reacts to a health policy (anger, fear, trust), where and when these conversations occur, and who shapes them.
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A new study in JPHMP explains how New York State’s wastewater surveillance network was built to empower local health departments to respond to emerging public health threats.
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This study contextualized survey response rates from a community health center-based study focused on multiple types of discrimination and health, conducted during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, with results underscoring the need to interpret lower-than-expected response rates in relation to the impact of the pandemic and the broader sociopolitical context.
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