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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.
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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 [...]
Prevention is key, crisis or not
The parable is well known in public health circles. Two people are relaxing on a riverbank when they hear a [...]
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 [...]
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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.”
