Burnout can affect anyone but can be more common in women and is characterized by chronic fatigue, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, irritability, lack of concentration, and, in the most serious cases, depression. For those working in public health, especially those in salaried positions — and most especially during a pandemic — burnout can be hard to avoid. There is always more
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As I’ve mentioned previously, science is a failure business. Whether it’s a manuscript, a job search, or a grant application, the odds are that you’ll experience one or more rejections on the way to success. But what does rejection mean in this context? Does it mean you’re a bad writer, a bad candidate, or a bad scientist? The answer is
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by Justin B. Moore, PhD, MA, FACSM The Editor’s Podcast appears with each new issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and offers a closer look at the articles published in the latest issues with guest appearances by authors, guest editors, and others. COVID-19 has caused unavoidable but serious consequences related to delays in preventive care, missed
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by JPHMP Direct The series is FREE, so enroll now! Practice-based research is at the core of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP) mission. Practitioners are doing good and important work, inside and outside COVID-19 response, and are doing work that the broader community might benefit from learning more about. State and local public health practitioners are
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by Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS, FACSM As the 2020 presidential election draws near, it’s important that voters’ rights to both participate in the democratic process and to also stay safe from the ongoing threat of COVID-19. And whether that means they’ll do it at a polling station (while continuing to practice social distancing, we hope), by drop box, or
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by Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS, FACSM Recently, I had an opportunity to talk with Dr. Jenine K. Harris, author of a new statistics book for social scientists called Statistics with R: Solving Problems Using Real-World Data. Dr. Harris teaches biostatistics courses as an associate professor in the public health program at Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her
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In previous posts, I’ve covered the basics of grant writing and the identification of a funder for your work. Once you have an idea and have identified a funder, it’s important to learn how it operates and how to apply for a grant. In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its
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by Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS As the fall classic has come to a close and a champion has been crowned, let us pause to ponder the essence of baseball. Baseball is filled with strategy, suspense, and occasional excitement. That’s what drew me to watch baseball as a kid. As an adult, I’ve become more drawn to the plight of
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The Editor’s Podcast appears with each new issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and offers a closer look at the articles published in the latest issues with guest appearances by authors, guest editors, and others. In this episode of the editor’s podcast, Dr. Justin Moore, Associate Editor, discusses articles that appear in the November/December issue of
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“[I]n the course of my career, I’ve really seen that there’s a strong mutual benefit for researchers and practitioners to work together and collaborate, particularly in… getting evidence-based work — public health research, tested interventions, things that are funded on a large scale for research and evaluation — in the literature; that’s really an opportunity for the practitioner to pick
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