Public Health Perspectives

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 form

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).