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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. 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.
In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, guests Dr. Juliet Iwelunmor, Dr. Ucheoma Nwaozuru, and Ms. Alexis Engelhart describe a new public health literary journal called LIGHT that aims to center the public in public health.
Dawn Hunter and Zo Mpofu talk about their work in developing a countywide Racial Equity Action Plan to support transformative dialogue, increase civic engagement, and formalize efforts to advance racial equity in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
In this podcast, authors Maya Scherer and Alexandra Kamler describe the value of using public deliberation to set priorities for COVID-19 vaccine distribution for essential workers in New York City. Read their article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2022&issue=01000&article=00014&type=Fulltext
JPHMP Editor-in-chief Lloyd Novick speaks with Kristina Y. Risley and Christina R. Welter about best practices for enacting change at different levels while describing the factors, processes, skills, and tools required for leading complex change.
Editor-in-chief Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with Dr. Naoko Muramatsu about Battling Structural Racism Against Asians in the United States: Call for Public Health to Make the “Invisible” Visible, an article which appears in a new supplement, Public Health Interventions to Address Health Disparities Associated with Structural Racism. Read the article: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2022/01001/Battling_Structural_Racism_Against_Asians_in_the.2.aspx
Admiral Rachel L. Levine serves as the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She fights every day to improve the health and well-being of all Americans. She’s working to help our nation overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and build a stronger foundation for a healthier future -- one in which every American can attain their full health potential. ADM Levine’s storied career, first, as a physician in academic medicine, focused on the intersection between mental and physical health, treating children, adolescents, and young adults. Then as Pennsylvania’s Physician General and later as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health, she addressed COVID-19, the opioid crisis, behavioral health, and other public health challenges.
Dr. Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, spoke with Dr. Levine about Healthy People 2030 and its role in helping us build back the health of our nation after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Drs. Deborah Porterfield, Linda Hill, and Lisa Miller describe the unique role and challenges of the preventive medicine workforce.
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In this episode of The Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick talks with JPHMP editorial board member John Auerbach about a new position he has taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Director of Intergovernmental and Strategic Affairs.
Laws and policies are critical determinants of health and well-being. They can encourage positive behaviors and discourage harmful behaviors, and they can enhance or worsen health, health equity, health disparities, and health literacy. In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, Angela McGowen and Joel Teitelbaum, two of the authors of an article published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, discuss the roles of law and policy throughout the development of Healthy People 2030.
Read "Law and Policy as Tools in Healthy People 2030" in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice" here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Abstract/9000/Law_and_Policy_as_Tools_in_Healthy_People_2030.99167.aspx
Part 3 of a 3-part discussion with Dr. Jeanette Kowalik looks at the impact of systemic racism on COVID-19 in the City of Milwaukee and the city's response following a declaration that racism is a public health crisis. Learn more at www.JPHMPDirect.com.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Camelia Singletary speaks with Whitney Anderson, a graduate student at Saint Louis University currently finishing her Master of Public Health with a joint concentration in Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the erosion of public health infrastructure over the past decades and the need to revitalize a viable and talented frontline public health workforce. Authors of a new commentary in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice look to the largely unappreciated history of domestic disease control exemplified by key US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention programs for the breadth of skills, competencies, and workforce capacity necessary to be highly effective in the future.
Read the article here: https://bit.ly/31twEQB
Dushanka Kleinman and Cindy Brach, two of the authors of a new article published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, discuss updating health literacy for Healthy People 2030.
In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, authors Cynthia Gomez and Carter Blakey discuss their article, “Addressing Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health Through Healthy People 2030,” published ahead of print in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
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In part 2 of this 3-part podcast miniseries, APHA Health Administration Section Chair Dr. Michele McCay and Dr. Jeanette Kowalik discuss the 5 action items that the City of Milwaukee undertook as a result of its declaration that racism is a public health crisis.
Learn more here: https://jphmpdirect.com/2021/02/19/power-of-introducing-racism-as-a-public-health-crisis-policies/
Dr. Lloyd Novick and guest Dr. Erika Martin highlight new articles appearing in the May/June 2021 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which focuses on the policy implications of COVID-19, as well as a new supplemental issue highlighting HRSA's investments in preventive medicine and public health.
Read the May/June 2021 issue here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/pages/currenttoc.aspx
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CDC’s free online Law and Epidemic Emergency Preparedness (LEEP) training covers provisions and concepts applicable to epidemic response, including various challenges faced during the 2014 Ebola response, and applies them to future infectious disease emergency response planning. In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, Gregory Sunshine and Brianne Yassine describe what public health professionals can expect to learn in the new course.
In this 3-part podcast miniseries by the APHA Health Administration Section, Dr. Jeanette Kowalik discusses the significance of introducing racism as a public health crisis.
Dr. Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, discusses the importance of revisiting chronic diseases and other familiar public health threats even as we continue to control COVID-19.
JPHMP authors Nico Pronk and Dushanka Kleinman discuss their article "Promoting Health and Well-being in Healthy People 2030" in this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk.
Dr. Lloyd Novick talks with Michael Fraser, Chrissie Julianno, and Brian Castrucci about COVID-19 and Public Health: Looking Back, Moving Forward, a new supplemental issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
Dr. Mohamed Al-Ibrahim shares information on the Pfizer clinical trial he is working on to help find a vaccine for COVID-19.
Dr. Lloyd F. Novick describes articles appearing in the November-December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which focuses on surveillance of infectious disease attention to COVID-19.
Dr. Lloyd F. Novick highlights new articles appearing in the September 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which focuses on evidence-based public health.
Dr. Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Alan Beck, project coordinator at the Prevention Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis, about Heartland Moves, a project funded by the National Cancer Institute that aims to increase physical activity (PA) in rural populations in southeast Missouri.
Dr. Lloyd F. Novick, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, highlights new articles in the July 2020 issue that focuses on COVID-19.
Dr. Molly Gutilla and Dr. Allison Chamberlain discuss a new collaborative initiative between Emory University and the Georgia Department of Public Health to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Dr. Lloyd F. Novick talks with Dr. Betty Bekemeier, director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Washington about a new 90-minute contact tracing training program that is now available. The training, Every Contact Counts, will support public health agencies' ability to expand contact tracing efforts to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Gulzar Shah and Karl Peace discuss the role of information systems and data analytics in surveillance of COVID-19, the state of clinical trial research focused on assessing the efficacy and safety of potential interventions to prevent or treat COVID-19, and the benefits of generating a database of clinical trials for meta-analysis of trials' results? Do such databases exist for COVID-19 clinical trials in the US?
In the sixth episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Christiaan Abildso speaks with Lisa Charron, Project Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute.
Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Peter Watts, an elections law attorney in Oregon, about the importance of using plain language when sharing information with public audiences. As a city attorney who often writes ballot titles for taxes and levies in state and local elections, Peter has learned that using legalese and technical jargon can confuse voters and impact election results, particularly when the audience includes immigrants, non-English or limited-English speaking voters, or those with lower education levels.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Louise Hyneman, a St. Louis University MPH student, discusses her public health journey. Her experiences and interests surround working with food insecurity, like her internship with the St. Louis Area Food Bank. Louise also has an interest in economic development as a potential way to work towards sustainable changes in health outcomes.
In the fifth episode of Views from the Front Porch, Dr. Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Cindy Perry, the Elizabeth N. Gray Distinguished Professor and an Associate Professor at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon. Cindy has blended her personal and professional interests to weave together an extensive line of community-based participatory research with predominantly Latinx communities in Oregon to address health disparities with physical activity.
Dr. Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Dr. Jenine K. Harris, author of a new statistics book for social scientists called Statistics with R: Solving Problems Using Real-World Data.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, host Camelia Singletary speaks with Jade Conway, an MPH student at St. Louis University. Jade's work primarily focuses on maternal and child health, on both a domestic and global scale. Her most recent public health experience took her to Mpunde, Uganda. As a part of a project entitled Empower Through Health, she and her colleagues have had the opportunity to perform quantitative and qualitative community health needs assessments and focus group discussions to assist in understanding and prioritizing community needs and identified public health needs for the Buyende District and the catchment area of the Mpunde Health Center of rural eastern Uganda.
In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with Dr. Michael Fraser, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), about articles published in the May/June 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. This issue focuses on the opioid epidemic.
In this episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Dr. Christiaan Abildso talks with Dr. Noah Lenstra, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Noah approaches rural physical activity using his expertise in library sciences and his personal upbringing in a town of about 3,000 people in northwestern Illinois that, like many rural places, suffers from health disparities in chronic diseases.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Dr. Mehrete Girmay discusses some of her current work surrounding loneliness and isolation. Dr. Girmay is currently a Public Health Analyst for the Health Resources and Services Administration in the Office of Health Equity. As an advocate for health equity and social justice, her research has been focused on investigating social determinants of health on a national and global scale
Drs. John Marr and Lloyd Novick continue their conversation on COVID-19, this time discussing serological testing for COVID-19 virus as a component of a smarter public health strategy, a strategy that has been suggested by Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York.
As Dr. Novick notes in the following podcast, the New York State Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory has excellent past experience with performing mass serological testing for HIV in the newborn and other at-risk populations. Two articles by Dr. Novick et al describe how in a 21/2-year-period HIV serological testing was done for more than 650,000 specimens on newborns. This is a marked underestimate of capacity since serological testing at that time included other groups including those attending sexually transmitted disease clinics and family planning clinics.
This experience shows that with a concerted effort large-scale testing of the population is possible.
In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with Colleen Barbero, Lindsay Cloud, and Lance Gable about Advancing Legal Epidemiology, a new supplement published March 2020 in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
Dr. Lloyd Novick, Editori-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and Dr. John Marr, American epidemiologist, discuss flattening the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and resource capacity of the American health care system.
Dr. Lloyd Novick, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and Dr. John Marr, American physician, epidemiologist, and infectious disease outbreak expert, weigh in with where things might be headed next with coronavirus in the United States.
Dr. JP Leider, Dr. Betty Bekemeier, and Mr. Greg Whitman discuss the importance of standardization of financial information systems for public health practice and policy, particularly in the current COVID-19 crisis.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Lindsay Cloud and Lance Gable discuss legal epidemiology. Lindsay Cloud is the director of the Policy Surveillance Program at the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Lance Gable is an associate professor of law at Wayne State University and an expert on public health law and bioethics. Both Lindsay and Lance are authors in an upcoming supplement on legal epidemiology that will be available in February 2020.
Dr. Shaun Owens at the University of South Carolina's College of Social Work discusses the various innovative technologies he's using at the Healthy Aging Research and Technology (HART) Lab to help cancer patients make more informed decisions about screenings, biopsies, treatment, and survivorship.
Dr. Shaun Owens at the University of South Carolina's College of Social Work discusses the work he is doing at the Healthy Aging Research and Technology (HART) Lab to help older adults make informed health decisions about aging in place.
In the third episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Jeff Whitfield, epidemiologist with the Physical Activity and Health Branch at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about walking, physical activity, and the built environment in rural America.
Public Health Perspectives host Camelia Singeltary revisits with Episode 5 guest LaTonya Bynum to get an update on her work.
Dr. Gulzar Shah and Valerie Rogers discuss Smart Health Communities (SHCs) and their part in the move toward local and some state governmental systems to modernize and use innovation to support overarching health and wellbeing goals.
Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner of Health for the Vermont Department of Health, discusses a new case study published in the Jan 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which chronicles the events of a near miss mass school shooting that happened in Vermont in 2018.
In the second episode of Views from the Front Porch, my guest is Dr. Michael B. Edwards, Associate Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at North Carolina State University. Mike’s research is guided by the idea that developing and managing socially responsible sport and recreational facilities, programs, services, and events will encourage more active lifestyles, reduce health disparities, and provide the tools for sustainable community development.
In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, authors Elena Grossman and Emily York discuss their article, "Minigrants to Local Health Departments: An Opportunity to Promote Climate Change Preparedness," published in the March/April 2019 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
In this episode of the editor’s podcast, Dr. Justin Moore, Associate Editor, discusses articles that appear in the November/December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. This issue's primary focus is on tobacco, but there are also a number of interesting articles that focus on social determinants of health.
Dr. Christiaan Abildso, host of Views from the Porch: Rural Physical Activity, speaks with Dr. M. Renee Umstattd Meyer about the creative solutions at the heart of rural communities.
Today Justin Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Randy Schwartz about the importance of implementation science to public health.
This month, we shine the spotlight on JPHMP editorial board member Dr. Ross C. Brownson. Dr. Brownson has been a member of the editorial board since 2007. He is a leading expert in chronic disease prevention and in the area of applied epidemiology, and is regarded as one of the great intellectual, educational, and practice leaders in the field of evidence-based public health. Dr. Brownson has a joint appointment with Washington University’s School of Medicine in the Department of Surgery and the Siteman Cancer Center.
Vanesscia Cresci, Director of Research and Public Health at the California Rural Indian Health Board, and Rosalina James, Director of Evaluation and Research at the Urban Indian Health Institute, outline the role of Tribal Epidemiology Centers in improving the health of native communities and offer highlights of the research published in a new supplement issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice that focuses on Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Advancing Public Health in Indian Country for Over 20 Years.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Dr. Abigail Gamble joins the show to talk about her community engaged research that focuses on healthy maternal and child outcomes for teenage mothers in the Mississippi Delta. Dr. Gamble is an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center with faculty appointments in the Department of Preventive Medicine, John D. Bower School of Population Health, and the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Science Director for the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities; and investigator in the Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research (MCCTR).
Sarah Nash, PhD, MPH, Director of Cancer Surveillance at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and Diana Redwood, PhD, MPH, an Epidemiologist at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, discuss their study, "Developing an Epidemiologic Study to Investigate Risk Factors for Colorectal Cancer Among Alaska Native People," which describes the process of working with tribal communities to initiate a research study of lifestyle and genetic risk factors for colorectal cancer in Alaska Native communities. The report is published in a special supplement issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice -- Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Advancing Public Health in Indian Country for Over 20 Years.
Interview with Dr. JP Leider, an independent consultant in the public health and health policy space, as well as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Minnesota and Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
William Moore is a Health Educator with Saint Paul – Ramsey County Public Health and one of the first men in Minnesota to be certified as a birth attendant and breastfeeding educator who is working to reduce infant mortality rates in the African American community.
Jade Harris, an MPH student, studying at Kent State University, shares insights about a practicum she recently completed at Advantage Health Centers (AHC), a federally qualified health organization in Detroit, MI.
In this two-part series, Elena Vidrascu examines the potential consequences and correlations of screen time, attention, and substance abuse. Last time, she looked at whether we may be inadvertently increasing our children’s risk to drug and alcohol addiction later in life, specifically with how excessive screen time impacts the developing minds of youngsters growing up in the digital age. Today, she speaks with Dr. Melissa Cox, assistant professor at East Carolina University, to discuss media influences and risk of future substance use, and how parents can intervene.
Elena Vidrascu speaks with Dr. John Marr, former director of the New York City Bureau of Communicable Diseases, about a new collection of case studies called Backstories in Epidemiology: True Medical Mysteries, which he co-edits with Carole Novick and JPHMP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Lloyd Novick.
Information systems can play an instrumental role in assessing any hidden biases in admissions and enrollment for any university, but it is especially important for public health programs that seek to ensure that their graduates, the future public health practitioners are as diverse as the communities that they will be serving. Dr. Maseru shared insights from his and his colleagues’ work at his institution in assessing any systematic biases concerning diversity and inclusion from data about those admitted into the program but also those that were accepted but declined and those that were not accepted by the program (rejected).
This July, we shine the spotlight on JPHMP editorial board member Dr. Peggy Honoré. Dr. Honoré has been a member of the editorial board since 2005. She is the AmeriaHealth Caritas-General Russel Honoré Endowed Professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health and School of Medicine. Her experience spans a diverse range of fields, including higher education, private industry, healthcare, and public health. Read the interview here: http://bit.ly/2Jum7ez.
In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick discusses articles that appear in the July 2019 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. This issue focuses on investments in population health.
On this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Gregory Sunshine talks about the CDC’s Public Health Emergency Law online training. Gregory Sunshine is a Public Health Analyst with CDC’s Public Health Law Program in the Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support. He oversees research on topics including disaster and public health emergency declarations, isolation and quarantine, and medical countermeasure distribution.
In this JPHMP Direct Talk feature, Rachel Locke, Program Associate at the de Beaumont Foundation, and Tiffaney Brown, Director of Staff Training and Development at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), join us to talk about creativity and innovation in the governmental public health workplace. This conversation stems from data captured in the 2017 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS). PH WINS is a national survey of state and local public health agency employees that captures detailed demographics as well as perspectives on issues such as workforce engagement, morale, training needs, and emerging concepts in public health. In addition to publicly releasing demographics and findings at the national level, PH WINS also provides state- and city-specific data to agencies to help them understand strengths, gaps, and opportunities to improve skills, training, and employee engagement.
In this JPHMP Direct Talk podcast, Adam Lustig at Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) shares information about a new report which he has co-authored, "Promoting Health and Cost Control in States (PHACCS)." The report focuses on six overarching goals to help US states improve health and well-being by focusing on evidence-based methods for changing policies to benefit underserved communities and individuals.
On this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Natasha Hansen, a student at St. Louis University, talks about her internship experience at the PAHO/WHO Guatemala Country Office where she not only participated in meetings and workshops to improve public health throughout the region, but she also wrote a CERF emergency fund grant.
Dr. Anjum Khurshid is the Director of Data Integration and the Co-Chief of Health Information and Data Analytic Sciences, as well as, an Assistant Professor of Population Health and Affiliate Faculty, Center for Health Communication at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin.
In this episode, Linda Villarosa joins host Camelia Singletary to talk about the ongoing health disparities faced by pregnant African American women. This conversation stems from a New York Times article that Ms. Villarosa authored entitled “Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-babies-death-maternal-mortality.html
In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick looks at articles appearing in the May 2019 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which focuses on substance abuse and related disorders. In a new commentary, "Avoiding Déjà vu All Over Again: Inserting Public Health/ Mental/ Behavioral Health, and Prevention Policy Into the Opiate Crisis Litigation," Beitsch and Langhinrichsen-Rohling link the current substance abuse problem to tobacco and refer to the notable successes that public health accomplished with respect to nicotine dependency. In another article, Hedberg and co-authors describe the opioid epidemic in Oregon and an initiative launched in 2015 which decreases opioid prescribing including statewide guidelines and coverage standards for opioid and non-opioids for back pain in the Medicaid program. Their approach spans public health and health care systems, involves key stakeholders, and uses data to identify strategies to decrease misuse and overdose. A new case study by former Florida Secretary of Health Celeste Philip looks at the first non-travel related Zika case in the United States and how she mobilized her agency to perform unique surveillance, mosquito abatement, and media relation strategies.
Dr. Paul Erwin, Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, shares his career journey from his early dream of becoming a country doctor like his father to the trip to Nepal that introduced him to public health and changed the course of his life.
In this JPHMP Direct Talk feature, Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with Dr. Celeste Philip about preparedness efforts and major actions that were essential during a 2016 outbreak of Zika in the Florida counties of Miami-Dade and Broward.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Dr. Benedict Truman discusses his role as a Medical Officer at the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Dr. Shah and Dr. Vest discuss the role of data and other informatics components in supporting upstream wraparound services through non-medical providers to leverage SDoH.
In the this podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, shares information about publishing in academic journals, including the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. This information may be useful to students and others interested in writing a scientific article for a peer-reviewed academic journal.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Noble Salwan, an MPH student at Saint Louis University talks about his passion for public health and how he was able to channel that passion into becoming an ambassador for This Is Public Health (TIPH).
Dr. Lloyd F. Novick, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, gives a preview of some of the articles appearing in the March issue, including research on perceptions of global warming, minigrants to local health departments to combat climate change, healthy people for the 21st century, reproducibility of scientific studies, local heath departments addressing health disparities, and much more. He also discusses a new supplement issue focusing on the 2017 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey from the de Beaumont Foundation.
In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, informatics experts Dr. Gulzar Shah, Dr. Zahid Butt, and Mr. Mark Renfro, discuss informatics silos and the potential role for informatics to incentivize partnerships between healthcare and public health.
Dr. Lloyd Novick, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, talks with Dr. Timothy Dignam from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about a new Lead Poisoning Prevention supplement published by JPHMP.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, we speak with Marcus Stanley, who works for the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) in the SUSTAIN Wellbeing COMPASS Coordinating Center. Here he discusses aspects relevant to engaging communities and necessity of building from the ground up. As he strives to bring the most benefit to those effected and impacted by his work, Mr. Stanley brings insight into building intersectional partnerships, learning to work with vulnerable community members and allowing them to be the experts, and learning to be an ally to his full potential by ensuring meaningful involvement.
In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick, Editor-in-Chief, explains the origins of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and what it has managed to accomplish in its first twenty-five years.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, we speak with Montrece Ransom, Team Lead for Training and Workforce Development with the Public Health Law Program (PHLP) in the Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She discusses her journey into her career in Public Health Law at the CDC.
Can sound waves heal our bodies and minds? There’s a growing belief that certain holistic healing methods such as sound therapy do lead to positive health outcomes. In my previous podcast episode, host Elena Vidrascu examined the physiological responses we have to audio stimulation, by understanding how our ears and brains process information received audibly through sound waves, and then looking at the relationship between our brain waves and our health in an effort to introduce you to sound healing.
In this episode, Elena discusses the practical use of sound for enhancing well-being, with special guest Alexander Tuttle, a sound therapist and musician who holds a private practice in Stokesdale, North Carolina, where he works with people struggling with anxiety, depression, pain, substance abuse, and other trauma-related issues. Listen to the audio, and when you’re finished, be sure to leave me a comment. Do you have any experience with sound healing therapies?
Can sound waves heal our bodies and minds? There’s a growing belief that certain holistic healing methods such as sound therapy do lead to positive health outcomes. In this two-part series, I explore the potential healing properties of sound therapy by examining the physiological responses we have to audio stimulation. I start by trying to better understand sound waves and how our ears and brains process information received audibly. Then I look at the relationship between our brain waves and our health in an effort to introduce you to sound healing. Next time, I’ll talk with Alexander Tuttle, musician and sound therapist based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to discuss the healing properties of sound in treating chronic pain, stress, anxiety, and drug addiction.
In this episode, Dr. Allison Chamberlain, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health, talks to us about a case study she wrote and published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice involving a legionella outbreak in NYC, how she became an epidemiology consultant for the Fulton County Board of Health, and the work she has done with her students in bridging the gap between practice and research.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Whitney Hewlett Noël, MPH, former NACCHO Program Analyst, describes the Roots of Health Inequities course, funded by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities and the National Institute of Health (NIH). The Roots of Health Inequity is an online learning collaborative. The site offers a starting place for those who want to address systemic differences in health and wellness that are, actionable, unfair, and unjust
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Terri Floyd, MS, a business analyst with Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, shares her career path in health information technology.
In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, Elena Vidrascu, MSc, JPHMP Direct contributor of the series Preventing America’s Next Drug Epidemic: A Multidisciplinary Approach, discusses whether and how screen time and media content may be impacting the developing minds of youngsters growing up in the digital age. In this two-part series, she'll examine the potential consequences and correlations of screen time, attention, and substance abuse.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, LaTonya Bynum shares insights into preparing for the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) examination, which measures knowledge in the Seven Areas of Responsibility for Health Education Specialists delineated by A Competency-Based Framework for Health Education Specialists 2015.
LaTonya Bynum is the Healthcare Technical Writer for the Health and Life Sciences Department of DXC Technology, a global end-to-end IT company. Recently, she earned her MPH with an emphasis in Health Policy and Management from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. In addition, she holds a bachelor of science degree in Health Education with a concentration in Community Health and Spanish. Last year, Bynum founded U.R.A. Resource Center, LLC, a public health consulting firm specializing in creative/technical writing, public speaking, and research/data analysis.
In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, Les Beitsch, MD, JD, and Ron Chapman, MD, MPH, chat with PHAB Communications Manager Teddi Nicolaus about how public health accreditation is driving the use of Quality Improvement and Performance Management at health departments. Dr. Beitsch is the Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Chapman serves as Health Officer for California’s Yolo County. The discussion draws on Dr. Chapman’s commentary, “Public Health Accreditation Impact: The Performance Management System,” and a research report co-authored by Dr. Beitsch titled “Has Voluntary Public Health Accreditation Impacted Health Department Perceptions and Activities in Quality Improvement and Performance Management?” The reports are featured in a special supplement to the May/June 2018 Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which highlights the value and impact of health department accreditation.
This episode of JPHMP Direct TALK focuses on an editorial published in the July/August 2018 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, titled “Deaths of Despair and Building a National Resilience Strategy” by John Auerbach and Benjamin Miller, an editorial written in response to the Pain in the Nation report released by Trust for America’s Health, which elucidates the alarming statistics related to deaths caused by drug overdoses, alcohol, and suicide, and what actions our nation must implement in order to foster a resilience strategy and end these epidemics. Guests: John Auerbach and Elena Vidrascu Read "Deaths of Despair and Building a National Resilience Strategy" by John Auerbach, MBA, and Benjamin Miller, PsyD, published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice at https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2018/07000/Deaths_of_Despair_and_Building_a_National.1.aspx
Allison Foster, President of the National Board of Public Health Examiners chats with host Camelia Singletary about CPH (Certified in Public Health) credentialing for current and future public health care workers.
Here are some relevant articles that can be found in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2…fessional.9.aspx (she is actually lead author on this paper)
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journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2…epartment.1.aspx
Link to the National Board of Public Health Examiners website www.nbphe.org/leadership/
Dr. Rex Archer, MD, MPH, Director of the Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department and a member of the board of directors of the Public Health Accreditation Board, chats with PHAB Communications Manager Teddi Nicolaus about how partnerships with local organizers can transform communities and create upstream health solutions.
In this episode, the focus will be on accreditation for schools and colleges of public health by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). As noted on the organization’s site, its mission is to “assures quality in public health education and training to achieve excellence in practice, research, and service, through collaboration with organizational and community partners.” Joining the show today are Laura Rasar King, CEPH Executive Director, and Nicole Williams, Communications Director & Senior Accreditation Specialist. Laura has over 15 years of experience in the public health field and has been an integral part of developing outcomes-based foundational criteria for MPH and DrPH programs. Nicole has been working with CEPH since 2010 where she has aided in the development of accreditation of standalone baccalaureate program.
Read more about Laura Rasar King, MPH, MCHES: https://ceph.org/about/staff/king/
Read more about Nicole E. Williams, MPH: https://ceph.org/about/staff/williams/
Explore CEPH to find resources related to accredited programs of Public Health:https://ceph.org/
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, join host Camelia Singletary, MPH, as she speaks with Lizzie Corcoran on experiences with public health leadership and the development of future public healthcare workers.
Lizzie Corcoran Lizzie is the 2017-2018 ASPPH Philanthropy Fellow at the de Beaumont Foundation.
In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Drs. Lloyd F. Novick and Cynthia Morrow, co-editors of JPHMP's 21 Public Health Case Studies on Policy & Administration (Wolters Kluwer, 2017), join host Camelia Singletary, MPH, live at the American Public Health Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss why the editors chose to focus on the case-based learning strategies presented in their new book and the ways that realistic insight gleaned from actual case examples will be beneficial to future public health professionals.