Public Health Perspectives

Dr. Ellyn Mulcahy describes what public health means to her on a personal and a professional level.

Dr. Bridges Hamilton describes what public health means to her personally and professionally.

Dr. Ellyn Mulcahy describes what she thinks everyone should know about public health.

Dr. Christina Bridges Hamilton describes what she wishes everyone knew about public health.

Dr. Ellyn Mulcahy shares her advice for public health graduates entering the workforce.

Dr. Christina Bridges Hamilton share her advice for public health students entering the workforce.

We are thrilled to announce that Karsen DeWeese, an MPH student at Kansas State University, is completing an internship at the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Karsen brings a wealth of communications experience with her from a prior internship with our friends at the Kansas Health Institute. On top of that, she recently successfully defended her dissertation and completed a graduate certificate in strategic health communications.  This week, as we celebrate National Public Health Week, we're delighted to amplify one of the voices of public health by sharing a podcast where Karsen shares her experiences and insights into public health communications.

JPHMP editorial board member Dr. Lillian Smith considers herself a pracademic who enjoys fostering an environment where everyone can be innovative. As the Dean of Western Michigan University (WMU), she has a deep appreciation for the interdisciplinary work that public health targets and believes the best work can be achieved through working with community partners. In this podcast with JPHMP intern Karsen DeWeese, Dr. Smith discusses WMU's adoption of the Okanagan Charter, and much more.

JPHMP intern Karsen DeWeese speaks with Suhanee Mitragotri about the Naloxone Education Initiative, an educational program she developed to inform and train high school students on the use of naloxone in preventing opioid overdoses.

In this episode of The Editor's Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with one of the editors of The Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health, a guide for researchers, community activists, and advocates of maternal health offering practical tools and strategies to improve inequities in maternal health. This third edition aims to describe the need and opportunities for improving maternal health through multi-sector collaborations. It highlights examples of effective cross-sector partnerships that are making real improvements in health outcomes for maternal health populations and offers practical tools and strategies for practitioners working in this space.

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, members of the APHA Health Administration Section and the APHA Human Rights Forum, Drs. Mirna Amaya and Becky Pearson, speak to Drs. Faye Taxman and Niloofar Ramezani, about the macrofactors that influence local jail populations.

In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with author Dr. Tim McCall about a new study published in a special issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice highlighting the findings of the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey 2021. “The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship with an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic" underscores the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on the public health workforce and the urgent need to reduce turnover and build a resilient workforce prepared for future emergencies. Read the article here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2023&issue=01001&article=00009&type=Fulltext

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, two of the authors of a new case study in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice relate how the Jefferson County Health Department in Alabama navigated the challenges of mitigating COVID-19 during the early stages of the pandemic. Read "Exploring the Preliminary Steps of One County Health Department to Manage the COVID-19 Pandemic" here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2022/11000/Exploring_the_Preliminary_Steps_of_One_County.12.aspx

In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with Dr. James Tesoriero and Rachel Newport, two authors of a new article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice who describe an intervention shown to increase prescription fills for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a key tool in state and national efforts to end AIDS as an epidemic. Importantly, they found that the benefits of the intervention were realized across sex, region, and racial and ethnic subgroups and that it should be easily replicable across jurisdictions. Read their article in JPHMP: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2022/09000/Assessing_the_Impact_of_a_PrEP_Aware_Week_Campaign.6.aspx

Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, MPH, is a faculty member, researcher, and critical public health scholar at Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University. He is the Director of Climate & Health Equity Practice Fellowship, an international fellowship focused on training the next generation of climate medicine leaders in the Global South. He also is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholar fellow. Currently, he is based at Harvard Divinity School, exploring the intersection of religion and public health policies, especially as those relate to climate change.

The second installment of this limited podcast series focuses on the value of implementation science for advancing health equity and how Dr. Donaldson Conserve, a Haitian scientist, is using his research to improve HIV/AIDS related outcomes in multiple countries including the US, Tanzania, and Haiti.

The first installment of this limited podcast series hosted by Dr. Shaun Owens focuses on defining health equity research and how guest Dr. Ron Hickman, Associate Dean for Research at Case Western Reserve University, is using his platforms as nursing scientist and dean to advance health equity research and education.

In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with Brian Castrucci, CEO and president of the de Beaumont Foundation, about newly released data from the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PHWINS). The data reveal the level of physical and mental exhaustion the public health workforce has been experiencing as a result of battling not only the worst pandemic in a century but also an unprecedented level of politicization that has, in many instances, led to threats of violence toward public health workers.

Dr. Gulzar Shah talks to Dr. Beth Seltzer and Dr. Heather Krasna, authors of 101+ Careers in Public Health, about the many career paths available in the field of public health.

JPHMP Editor-in-chief Lloyd F. Novick speaks with Dr. Brian C. Moyer, Director of the National Center for Health Statistics, about the role of Healthy People 2030.