Practice
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A Family Perspective Approach on Pediatric IBD for Public Health Professionals
Kaitlyn Rau
For young children with pediatric inflammatory bowel disease, family and adult caregivers can make all the difference. Public health professionals working with pediatric IBD can employ a family perspective approach to support improved quality of life for children and their families. Read more
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Stacking Protections against Disease: What Do Driving a Car and Occupational Health Have to Do with the Coronavirus?
Aurora Le
Preventing the spread of disease is essential for our health. So is having a steady income. To get us back to work safely, occupational health experts are helping us “stack” protective measures—use multiple layers of safeguards—to truly protect workers, clients, patients, and visitors from the potential harms of environmental exposures on the job and in other spaces we frequent. Read more
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Translating Public Health Research
Part 5 in Our 'What Is Public Health?' Video Series
In classrooms, labs, and communities, public health reveals deeper understandings about human health. But to empower populations and impact lives for the better, that knowledge has to be shared. In this new video from our 'What Is Public Health' series, learn how... Read more
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The Value of Creative, Cross-Disciplinary Work: Bringing Together the Theoretical and the Practical
Leon Espira, MPH ’15
After studying genetics and cardiac physiology, Leon Espira worked in med tech and began noticing gaps between theoretical and practical understandings of human health. In studying epidemiology, which tries to account for every experience a human might have, Espira is seeing new bridges we might build between data and daily life. Read more
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Fighting Climate Change Effects with Public Health
Kelly Broen
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. Read more
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What Are Social Determinants of Health?
Part 2 in Our 'What Is Public Health?' Video Series
Your health is influenced by a wide range of factors, and the body you were born with is only one of them. In part two of our ongoing 'What Is Public Health?" video series, learn about some of the other factors that influence our health and what public health professionals do to address them. Read more
