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Critical Viewpoints of Public Health Career Advancement: Podcast with Dr. Ans Irfan

Posted on August 29, 2022 by Camelia Singletary

Public Health Perspectives is a podcast series targeted towards strengthening the future public health workforce. Join us as we 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, I’m speaking with Dr. Ans Irfan, a public health scholar-practitioner currently based at Harvard University, where he is exploring

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COVID-19 & Epoch of Incredulity

Posted on February 5, 2021 by jphmpdirect

by Ans Irfan, MD, MPH, FRSPH “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope,

Ode to Public Health Academy: Urgent Call to Reform and Go Beyond Pretty Words

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Ans Irfan

Racism is a public health issue. Police violence is a public health issue. Social justice is a public health issue. Let us add a qualifying noun such as “structural” or “systematic” to strengthen our “response” to anti-Blackness and racism. Black lives matter. With some wordsmithing, some variation of these lines basically constitutes large chunks of the “statements” and “responses” issued

COVID-19 Amidst Carceral Contexts: The Overton Window of Political Possibility and Policy Change

Posted on April 20, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Cynthia Golembeski, MPH; Ans Irfan, MD, MPH; Brie Williams, MD, MS; and Homer Venters, MD, MPH Photographer Ron Levine took the photo of William Howard “Tex” Johnson when Johnson was 67 and serving time for snatching $24 in 1959 in Birmingham, AL. The photo is part of the “Prisoners of Age” series, which includes interviews with aging inmates and