Public Health Perspectives

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, gives a preview of some of the articles appearing in the March issue, including research on perceptions of global warming, minigrants to local health departments to combat climate change, healthy people for the 21st century, reproducibility of scientific studies, local heath departments addressing health...

In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, informatics experts Dr. Gulzar Shah, Dr. Zahid Butt, and Mr. Mark Renfro, discuss informatics silos and the potential role for informatics to incentivize partnerships between healthcare and public health.

Dr. Lloyd Novick, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, talks with Dr. Timothy Dignam from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about a new Lead Poisoning Prevention supplement published by JPHMP.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, we speak with Marcus Stanley, who works for the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) in the SUSTAIN Wellbeing COMPASS Coordinating Center. Here he discusses aspects relevant to engaging communities and necessity of building from the ground up. As he strives to bring the most benefit to those effected and impacted by his work, M...

In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick, Editor-in-Chief, explains the origins of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and what it has managed to accomplish in its first twenty-five years.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, we speak with Montrece Ransom, Team Lead for Training and Workforce Development with the Public Health Law Program (PHLP) in the Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She discusses her journey into her career in Public Health Law at the CDC.

Can sound waves heal our bodies and minds? There’s a growing belief that certain holistic healing methods such as sound therapy do lead to positive health outcomes. In my previous podcast episode, host Elena Vidrascu examined the physiological responses we have to audio stimulation, by understanding how our ears and brains process information received audibly through sound waves, and then looking...

Can sound waves heal our bodies and minds? There’s a growing belief that certain holistic healing methods such as sound therapy do lead to positive health outcomes. In this two-part series, I explore the potential healing properties of sound therapy by examining the physiological responses we have to audio stimulation. I start by trying to better understand sound waves and how our ears and brains...

In this episode, Dr. Allison Chamberlain, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health, talks to us about a case study she wrote and published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice involving a legionella outbreak in NYC, how she became an epidemiology consultant for the Fulton County Board of Health, and the work she has done with her students...

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Whitney Hewlett Noël, MPH, former NACCHO Program Analyst, describes the Roots of Health Inequities course, funded by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities and the National Institute of Health (NIH). The Roots of Health Inequity is an online learning collaborative. The site offers a starting place for those who want to address...

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Terri Floyd, MS, a business analyst with Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, shares her career path in health information technology.

In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, Elena Vidrascu, MSc, JPHMP Direct contributor of the series Preventing America’s Next Drug Epidemic: A Multidisciplinary Approach, discusses whether and how screen time and media content may be impacting the developing minds of youngsters growing up in the digital age. In this two-part series, she'll examine the potential consequences and correlations of scree...

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, LaTonya Bynum shares insights into preparing for the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) examination, which measures knowledge in the Seven Areas of Responsibility for Health Education Specialists delineated by A Competency-Based Framework for Health Education Specialists 2015. LaTonya Bynum is the Healthcare Technical Writer for the Health a...

In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, Les Beitsch, MD, JD, and Ron Chapman, MD, MPH, chat with PHAB Communications Manager Teddi Nicolaus about how public health accreditation is driving the use of Quality Improvement and Performance Management at health departments. Dr. Beitsch is the Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at Florida State University College of Medicin...

This episode of JPHMP Direct TALK focuses on an editorial published in the July/August 2018 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, titled “Deaths of Despair and Building a National Resilience Strategy” by John Auerbach and Benjamin Miller, an editorial written in response to the Pain in the Nation report released by Trust for America’s Health, which elucidates the alarming...

Allison Foster, President of the National Board of Public Health Examiners chats with host Camelia Singletary about CPH (Certified in Public Health) credentialing for current and future public health care workers. Here are some relevant articles that can be found in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2…fessional.9.aspx (she is actually lead author...

Dr. Rex Archer, MD, MPH, Director of the Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department and a member of the board of directors of the Public Health Accreditation Board, chats with PHAB Communications Manager Teddi Nicolaus about how partnerships with local organizers can transform communities and create upstream health solutions.

In this episode, the focus will be on accreditation for schools and colleges of public health by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). As noted on the organization’s site, its mission is to “assures quality in public health education and training to achieve excellence in practice, research, and service, through collaboration with organizational and community partners.” Joining the sho...

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, join host Camelia Singletary, MPH, as she speaks with Lizzie Corcoran on experiences with public health leadership and the development of future public healthcare workers. Lizzie Corcoran Lizzie is the 2017-2018 ASPPH Philanthropy Fellow at the de Beaumont Foundation.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Drs. Lloyd F. Novick and Cynthia Morrow, co-editors of JPHMP's 21 Public Health Case Studies on Policy & Administration (Wolters Kluwer, 2017), join host Camelia Singletary, MPH, live at the American Public Health Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss why the editors chose to focus on the case-based learning strategies presented in th...