Tag Archives: public health careers

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

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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Choosing a Team and Being an Academic Team Player: Part II

This entry is part 18 of 35 in the series The Scholarship of Public Health

One of the biggest challenges for potential doctoral students and junior faculty members is finding a productive team that will support them in their scholarly endeavors and help them grow professionally. For doctoral students and other trainees (such as postdoctoral fellows), choosing the right program and mentor can be overwhelming, and the ramifications of choosing incorrectly can be significant and

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How can public health students make themselves competitive for employment?

This entry is part 33 of 35 in the series The Scholarship of Public Health

As soon as I entered academia, one of the most common questions I received from students was some variation of, “What is the best way to make myself more competitive for a job when I graduate?” To me, there are many answers one can give, and each of them is necessary but not sufficient. One that I most commonly hear

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