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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
Every Path Taken
After my undergraduate studies, I was determined to pursue a program that would help me become specialized in one field [...]
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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, public health professionals around the world, along with others, are doing our part in limiting [...]
You’re launching a pod, what? A beginner’s guide to podcasts
We’re launching a POD...cast! Yes, a podcast. In short, podcasts are like on-demand video (on a platform like Netflix and [...]
Creating a kick-ass team!
What the Avengers teach us about designing a productive, respectful, and dare I say, fun team Outside of Martin Scorsese, everyone seems to love Avengers’ movies. Fans are [...]
Students and young professionals, it’s not too early to start thinking about summer employment!
While it is only the beginning of the year (Happy New Year!), it’s not a bad idea to begin your [...]
The slow and thoughtful expansion of PH SPOT
As we gear up to wrap up 2019, and head into 2020, we are feeling excited here at PH SPOT. [...]
125 Miles per Hour – How jumping out of airplanes has made me a better public health professional
Red light.I shuffle on my knees towards the open plane door. It’s a hot summer day, and when I stick [...]
A Journey of Learning Truth and Beginning Reconciliation
How do you benefit from colonialism? Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report in 2015, many teams [...]
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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.”
