Public Health SPOTlight Podcast

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes In today’s episode, Sujani sits down with a fellow public health professional, Tasha McAbey, to announce the collaboration on a new series for the PH SPOT blog! Sujani met Tasha on Instagram through her page @Public. Health. Bookmark where she shares reviews on public health books she’s read. Knowing that the PH SPOT community w...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes We are adding a series of a new type of episode on the PH SPOTlight podcast, titled QUICK CAREER TIPS. These episodes will be short, typically ranging between 5-10 minutes and will spotlight a tip for public health professionals. Today’s career tip spotlight is on student job interviews and how to stand out during these sessions...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes In this first episode of 2021, Sujani sits down with Ken Lee who is a Career Education Specialist at Ryerson University. His role is to specifically support students in the area of health. I love this conversation because the episode offers practical tips for students and new graduates. We really wanted to provide guidance to he...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! In this final episode of 2020, the mic is turned on Sujani as she gets interviewed by her friend Lathika about the one year journey of producing the PH SPOTlight podcast.  In this celebratory episode, they talk about the past, present, and future of PH SPOT. You’ll Learn How Sujani is feeling about one year of podcasting, especially having...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes In this episode, Sujani talks about MPH (Master of Public Health) program prep! Applications for this graduate program are often due at the end of the year or early the following year. As students gear up to apply for the MPH degree of their dreams, Sujani shares two tips for those prepping for the MPH program, inspired by a blo...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes In this episode, Sujani sits down with Ama Kyeremeh, to speak about a day in the life of a public health research coordinator. Ama has worked in this role with an organization in British Columbia, Canada that focuses on women’s health. She takes us through how she became interested in the field, what a day looks like, and more....

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes Today on the show, Sujani speaks about leadership once again . We introduced the topic of leadership in public health on the PHSPOTlight podcast in episode 12 with Nadia Akseer . In that kick-off episode, we committed to bringing conversations with more of our peers around the topic of leadership. We want leadership in public he...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes Today on the show, Sujani sits down with Erica Di Ruggiero to talk about some very exciting news for Canada! In May 2020, the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health announced the much-anticipated Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program – the first of its kind in Canada. The DrPH has been a topic of interest am...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes After writing the Opinion piece on the PH SPOT blog, The rise of infographics, and why I believe all public health professionals should know how to design one , Sujani wanted to get behind the mic to explain why she believes this. In this solo episode, Sujani tells you what infographics are, how infographics have been used in pu...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes In this episode, Sujani sits down with a friend from her MPH program, Sameena Vadivelu, to speak about a day in the life of a program evaluator. Sameena has worked as a program evaluator in a local health unit and takes us through how she became interested in the field, her job application journey, what a day looks like, and mor...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes In this episode, Sujani shares a presentation she did last year to the ThriveHire audience. Having recently found this video, and listening to it again now almost a year later, we felt that the advice couldn’t be any more important right now. So we decided to put it up here on our podcast, as well as a little bit about our Infog...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes In this episode, we’re talking about preparing for your MPH degree in the time of COVID-19. Some of you may be feeling unsure about how things are going to be when classes start. Perhaps you’re feeling some anxiety, or have many questions around whether your experience is going to be valuable. We’re here to tell you that these f...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes This is the second episode we are recording since the COVID-19 pandemic. As we all try to navigate this new way of life, we at PH SPOT wanted to switch things up and produce a few podcast episodes that are different from our original show. In today’s episode, Sujani sits down with someone special. You may have heard his name in...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes This is the first episode Sujani sat down to record since COVID-19 became a pandemic. And we know that it is a tough time for every single one of us. We are new to physically distancing ourselves from families and friends, and holding game night and coffee chats over a video call are just not the same…and we now have to adjust t...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes Leadership is fascinating. From the way movements are formed by a single individual to how that single individual is able to inspire change amongst others. Undoubtedly, we can argue that leadership is very important in public health. In thinking about how we, as public health practitioners, can ensure that leadership is a skill...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Show Notes You’ve probably heard of the saying “growth and change lies outside of your comfort zone”, and this is true for our careers too. To advance in our careers, we need to do things that we are not comfortable with, whether that’s standing up and presenting at a large meeting, saying yes to a project that scares us, or perhaps even p...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! We launched the Career Advancement and Family Life series in the last episode with our guest Lathika Laguwaran . We are big believers here at PH SPOT of learning from those who have done something before us and using their lessons and experiences to craft our own path. We want to share the stories of public health professionals at various...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Family life and career advancement is a topic that deserves more than just one episode so we are committing to bringing you different perspectives on this podcast. We are big believers here at PH SPOT of learning from those who have done something before us, and using their lessons and experiences to craft our own path based on our unique...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! At some point in time we have all been in a position where we ponder on what our next step is going to be in our career journey. Sophiya Garasia faced a similar inflection point where she was trying to identify her next step after her degree in public health. In her search through self reflection, she discovered that medical school was not...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! To continue with our theme of public health consulting, we speak with Stephanie Hodges of Nourished Principles – a US-based consultative service that empowers individuals to make healthy, nutritious choices, and help communities, organizations, businesses, and schools to create healthier environments. Stephanie’s journey is different from...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Consulting has gotten a lot of interest in the public health space recently. For many reasons, public health professionals have chosen to explore consulting and have built careers around it. We have even seen interest within our PH SPOT community, and have been asked for resources by you to help you take the first step. Until now, we were...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Today’s episode is not with a public health professional, but rather a “friend of public health” – this is what we are calling the individuals who can support us with the services, advice/tips, and value they are able to share. Today’s friend of public health is Kiriga Konalingam, an HR recruiter who has worked in public health organizatio...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! I am so excited to introduce you to today’s episode because it marks the beginning of a mini series of episodes that will be a part of PH SPOTlight: The Entrepreneurship Series. It’s a topic that I am particularly passionate about so I am thrilled to have the opportunity to produce this series. The goal of the entrepreneurship series is to...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! Networking is undoubtedly one of the most important things you can do to build your public health career, but it’s a topic that doesn’t get enough attention or training in public health. It is also an activity that most people don’t enjoy (at least the conventional idea of networking). You’ll be happy to know then that when we say “network...

Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text! We have Amalia Plotogea here on this episode; and Amalia’s name might sound familiar because you may have read about her experience being a surveillance officer in Bangladesh to support the World Health Organization’s response to the Rohingya refugee crisis on our Blog . I brought Amalia on the podcast to ask her more about her field epide...