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We asked a family of public health researchers about big-picture changes in the field, how they decide which questions to pursue, and what they make of specialization in the sciences. Their conversation both lifts up and itself embodies the interdisciplinary nature of public health.
Interprofessional collaboration, teamwork, communication, and intercultural intelligence are vital skills for a public health practitioner. As IPE is integrated into public health education, learners will interact and learn with peers in other health professions regularly and can bring their insights with them into their professional work life.
Advances in genetic science provide us more and more information about our health. Biobanks are increasing the organization of that data so we can ask and answer crucial health questions more rapidly, from diseases we might have to how we might respond to certain drug treatments.
Can artificial intelligence improve the patient-provider relationship? Can it help us get healthy and stay healthy? From preventing physician burnout to better organizing our health records, AI is a powerful, promising tool that we all should know more about.
As the frequency and intensity of natural disasters increases, public health can provide life-saving support in the aftermath. Disaster response research might not fall neatly into a single academic discipline, but we cannot allow disaster relief to fall through the cracks.
Statins are extremely effective at lowering cholesterol and, thus, preventing cardiovascular disease. But can this safe and generally well-tolerated medication for treating other chronic diseases also prevent cancer?