Public Health Perspectives

Admiral Rachel L. Levine serves as the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She fights every day to improve the health and well-being of all Americans. She’s working to help our nation overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and build a stronger foundation for a healthier future -- o...

Drs. Deborah Porterfield, Linda Hill, and Lisa Miller describe the unique role and challenges of the preventive medicine workforce. Learn more: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/toc/2021/05001 https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2021/05001/HRSA_s_Investment_in_Preventive_Medicine.1.aspx https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2021/05001/The_Supply_and_Distribution_of_the_Preventive.2.aspx https:/...

In this episode of The Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick talks with JPHMP editorial board member John Auerbach about a new position he has taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Director of Intergovernmental and Strategic Affairs.

Laws and policies are critical determinants of health and well-being. They can encourage positive behaviors and discourage harmful behaviors, and they can enhance or worsen health, health equity, health disparities, and health literacy. In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, Angela McGowen and Joel Teitelbaum, two of the authors of an article published in the Journal of Public Health Management and...

Part 3 of a 3-part discussion with Dr. Jeanette Kowalik looks at the impact of systemic racism on COVID-19 in the City of Milwaukee and the city's response following a declaration that racism is a public health crisis. Learn more at www. JPHMPDirect.com.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Camelia Singletary speaks with Whitney Anderson, a graduate student at Saint Louis University currently finishing her Master of Public Health with a joint concentration in Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the erosion of public health infrastructure over the past decades and the need to revitalize a viable and talented frontline public health workforce. Authors of a new commentary in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice look to the largely unappreciated history of domestic disease control exemplified by key US Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...

Dushanka Kleinman and Cindy Brach, two of the authors of a new article published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, discuss updating health literacy for Healthy People 2030.

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, authors Cynthia Gomez and Carter Blakey discuss their article, “Addressing Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health Through Healthy People 2030,” published ahead of print in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Read the article here https://bit.ly/2Qp1rfu Visit JPHMP https://www.jphmp.com

In part 2 of this 3-part podcast miniseries, APHA Health Administration Section Chair Dr. Michele McCay and Dr. Jeanette Kowalik discuss the 5 action items that the City of Milwaukee undertook as a result of its declaration that racism is a public health crisis. Learn more here: https://jphmpdirect.com/2021/02/19/power-of-introducing-racism-as-a-public-health-crisis-policies/

Dr. Lloyd Novick and guest Dr. Erika Martin highlight new articles appearing in the May/June 2021 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which focuses on the policy implications of COVID-19, as well as a new supplemental issue highlighting HRSA's investments in preventive medicine and public health. Read the May/June 2021 issue here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/pages/cur...

CDC’s free online Law and Epidemic Emergency Preparedness (LEEP) training covers provisions and concepts applicable to epidemic response, including various challenges faced during the 2014 Ebola response, and applies them to future infectious disease emergency response planning. In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, Gregory Sunshine and Brianne Yassine describe what public health professionals can...

In this 3-part podcast miniseries by the APHA Health Administration Section, Dr. Jeanette Kowalik discusses the significance of introducing racism as a public health crisis.

Dr. Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, discusses the importance of revisiting chronic diseases and other familiar public health threats even as we continue to control COVID-19.

JPHMP authors Nico Pronk and Dushanka Kleinman discuss their article "Promoting Health and Well-being in Healthy People 2030" in this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk.

Dr. Lloyd Novick talks with Michael Fraser, Chrissie Julianno, and Brian Castrucci about COVID-19 and Public Health: Looking Back, Moving Forward, a new supplemental issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Dr. Mohamed Al-Ibrahim shares information on the Pfizer clinical trial he is working on to help find a vaccine for COVID-19.

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick describes articles appearing in the November-December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which focuses on surveillance of infectious disease attention to COVID-19.

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick highlights new articles appearing in the September 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which focuses on evidence-based public health.

Dr. Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Alan Beck, project coordinator at the Prevention Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis, about Heartland Moves, a project funded by the National Cancer Institute that aims to increase physical activity (PA) in rural populations in southeast Missouri.

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, highlights new articles in the July 2020 issue that focuses on COVID-19.

Dr. Molly Gutilla and Dr. Allison Chamberlain discuss a new collaborative initiative between Emory University and the Georgia Department of Public Health to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick talks with Dr. Betty Bekemeier, director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Washington about a new 90-minute contact tracing training program that is now available. The training, Every Contact Counts, will support public health agencies' ability to expand contact tracing efforts to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

Gulzar Shah and Karl Peace discuss the role of information systems and data analytics in surveillance of COVID-19, the state of clinical trial research focused on assessing the efficacy and safety of potential interventions to prevent or treat COVID-19, and the benefits of generating a database of clinical trials for meta-analysis of trials' results? Do such databases exist for COVID-19 clinical t...

In the sixth episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Christiaan Abildso speaks with Lisa Charron, Project Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute.