Practice
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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
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What Is Public Health?
A New Video Series from Michigan Public Health
The field of Public Health—though sometimes misunderstood—plays a critical role in the promotion of health, prevention of disease, and empowerment of people to manage chronic illness and disabilities. In the first of a new video series, discover how different facets of public health work together to drive lasting change. Read more
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Engaging the Communities We Inhabit
Spencer Walz
Despite advances in the field of mental health, uncertainty is still felt throughout many public mental health systems. Volunteering in the community has taught Spencer Walz that healing exists on a continuum. Read more
