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PH SPOTlight: Public health career stories, inspiration, and guidance from current-day public health heroes
On the show, Sujani sits down with public health heroes of our time to share career stories, inspiration, and guidance for building public health careers. From time to time, she also has conversations with friends of public health – individuals who are not public health professionals, but their advice and guidance are equally important.
Be Inspired | Recent posts from the blog
When advocating for a balanced approach, let’s not forget the other side of the balance
Opinion pieceIn advancing the idea of a ‘balanced approach’, commentators should recall that the other extreme of getting the balance [...]
Welcome to 2021 – Introducing you to the three pillars of PH SPOT
Welcome to 2021! Last year was an unexpected year for everyone, and an especially unexpecting year for public health. We [...]
Hidden harms experience spikes as well. We just choose not to see them.
Opinion pieceI’ve had the same image running through my mind. It’s of a family: two partners, a mangy dog, several [...]
How Women Impact Public Health (The Good that Women Do for Public Health)
Throughout history, women have played a massive role as important public health figures across the globe. Whether on the frontlines [...]
How I think I got Into Grad School
Graduate School is just around the corner, and students are scrambling to order their transcripts, find their references, and get [...]
Navigating the pandemic as an early career professional
When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, I had been working in Public Health for just over four [...]
I want to do a public health degree! Should I do an MPH or an MSc?
This question is by far one of the top questions we receive from prospective master's students. And, it's a really [...]
What is our responsibility?
A couple of days ago, as I was scrolling through Twitter, this article title immediately caught my attention:“COVID-19 pandemic: countries [...]
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The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history
by John M. Barry
“Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, “The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that…those in authority must retain the public’s trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart.”
At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.”
