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PH SPOTlight Podcast | Latest Episodes
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
What I learned from job searching in the middle of a global pandemic
Last December, I graduated with my Master of Public Health (MPH) degree, wide-eyed, and ready to help advance the field [...]
Exploring your place in public health as an undergrad
After every semester, for the past 4 years, I would clean up my folder of contents from the courses I [...]
Paying for academic conferences – a graduate student’s conundrum
Academic conferences are a great way to showcase your research and network outside your institution. However, paying for academic [...]
The rise of infographics, and why I believe all public health professionals should know how to design one
Infographics in public healthThe rise in popularity of using infographics in public health is quite evident and noticeable. However, summarizing [...]
Reflections on public health & health equity during COVID-19
Sitting at my desk in my apartment in Toronto, I can recall hearing mentions of the newly identified coronavirus in [...]
Crowd-sourced public health job interview questions
In one of our weekly newsletters, we asked the PH SPOT community to submit interview questions that were asked [...]
5 tips for undergraduate students interested in a public health career
By the end of my first year of Biomedical Sciences, I knew I was interested in a career in public [...]
Building a website, a guide for public health professionals
We’ve recently seen more and more, public health professionals doing things themselves, no longer relying on specialists 100% of the [...]
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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.”
