The PHAST Framework and Toolkit can help support jurisdictional efforts to improve and sustain multi-sector partnerships addressing the overdose crisis.
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Overdose Fatality Review Teams do important work to improve overdose prevention in the community, but continued technical assistance may best support consistently rigorous implementation of best practices.
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This article highlights some of the difficulties maintaining routine retail food inspections during public health emergencies and lessons learned for prioritizing retail food regulatory practices during a significant public health event.
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Dr. Katie Schenk reflects upon what she’s learned about unity, community, immunity, and opportunity as she has been writing about public health.
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Our findings highlight strategies for enhancing public health capacity to prevent and respond to COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes and provide a possible model to increase public health infection prevention and control capacity for other infectious diseases and other healthcare settings.
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Our focus was to assess whether race moderated the relationship between work environment factors and turnover in the public health field. This research aligns with the higher goal of recruiting and retaining public health workers that are reflective of the communities they serve. The US population is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, and the population’s health and health care
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Public health leaders in all settings must be intentional in implementing strategies that strengthen our epidemiology workforce and prepare epidemiologists for the future of public health practice. As public health professionals, we are currently working in an incredibly dynamic era of public health practice. Not only was the field moving forward into “Public Health 3.0,” which calls for us to
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Thoughts on the possible overturn of Roe v. Wade and public health’s responsibilities in this moment. This post originally appeared on The Healthiest Goldfish with Sandro Galea and is republished here with permission from the author. Learn more at SandroGalea.org. A few days ago, Politico obtained a draft majority opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. If the draft becomes the Court’s final opinion,
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How do our country’s fractious regional and political identities create challenges and opportunities for health? This post originally appeared on The Healthiest Goldfish with Sandro Galea and is republished here with permission from the author. Learn more at SandroGalea.org. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that Americans who have not been vaccinated are now three times likelier to lean Republican than to lean Democrat.
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What rising tensions between the US and China may bode for public health, global health institutions, and the socioeconomic forces that shape health. This post originally appeared on The Healthiest Goldfish with Sandro Galea and is republished here with permission from the author. Learn more at SandroGalea.org. This summer, the journal Nature Food published a study which is, in many ways, a microcosm of a key force
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