Pediatric Medical Home model: Enhancing support for families through community collaboration
By Annie Clark
Explore how the Pediatric Medical Home model can pave the way for effective community collaboration and improved family access to care.
Community Partnership
PHAST trip to Grenada improves blood donation systems, teaches lesson on altruism in public health practice
Darius M. Moore
University of Michigan student Darius Moore details a recent trip to Grenada with the Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
7 Ways the Pandemic Changed Global Public Health for the Future
Chinyere Neale
The romanticism of global public health work, says Chinyere Neale, will not survive the pandemic nor the new forms of collaboration it has demanded of researchers. Knowing that we can do really good work from anywhere in the world—including our current location—is a good thing for public health.
It's Time to Rethink Capacity Building in Global Health Work
K. Rivet Amico
Capacity building is a ubiquitous phrase in grant applications, communications, and guidelines for many global health initiatives. Too often the phrase connotes an assumption that “established” US partners build knowledge or practice in “less-resourced” communities. What language can we use to more honestly recognize the value and contributions of all collaborators?
Resilient Leadership in a Dynamic World
Tonya Allen, BA '94, MPH/MSW '96
From rewriting rules to enabling others to succeed, Tonya Allen thinks leadership is not about an individual person doing a great thing but about an environment where everyone wins. In Detroit and now Minneapolis, Allen keeps putting herself out there so that entire communities can thrive.
Movements toward Health and Each Other
Renée Pitter, MPH ’09
An effort to spread health positivity among Black Michigan alums became a huge success. In the face of so many stories about health inequities and trauma in Black communities, a growing group of Black alums is moving their way to connection, awareness, health, and healing.