Public Health Perspectives

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, members of the APHA Health Administration Section and the APHA Human Rights Forum, Drs. Mirna Amaya and Becky Pearson, speak to Drs. Faye Taxman and Niloofar Ramezani, about the macrofactors that influence local jail populations.

In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with author Dr. Tim McCall about a new study published in a special issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice highlighting the findings of the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey 2021. “The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship with an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic" underscores the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on the public health workforce and the urgent need to reduce turnover and build a resilient workforce prepared for future emergencies. Read the article here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2023&issue=01001&article=00009&type=Fulltext

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, two of the authors of a new case study in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice relate how the Jefferson County Health Department in Alabama navigated the challenges of mitigating COVID-19 during the early stages of the pandemic. Read "Exploring the Preliminary Steps of One County Health Department to Manage the COVID-19 Pandemic" here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2022/11000/Exploring_the_Preliminary_Steps_of_One_County.12.aspx

In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with Dr. James Tesoriero and Rachel Newport, two authors of a new article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice who describe an intervention shown to increase prescription fills for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a key tool in state and national efforts to end AIDS as an epidemic. Importantly, they found that the benefits of the intervention were realized across sex, region, and racial and ethnic subgroups and that it should be easily replicable across jurisdictions. Read their article in JPHMP: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2022/09000/Assessing_the_Impact_of_a_PrEP_Aware_Week_Campaign.6.aspx

Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, MPH, is a faculty member, researcher, and critical public health scholar at Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University. He is the Director of Climate & Health Equity Practice Fellowship, an international fellowship focused on training the next generation of climate medicine leaders in the Global South. He also is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Policy Research Scholar fellow. Currently, he is based at Harvard Divinity School, exploring the intersection of religion and public health policies, especially as those relate to climate change.

The second installment of this limited podcast series focuses on the value of implementation science for advancing health equity and how Dr. Donaldson Conserve, a Haitian scientist, is using his research to improve HIV/AIDS related outcomes in multiple countries including the US, Tanzania, and Haiti.

The first installment of this limited podcast series hosted by Dr. Shaun Owens focuses on defining health equity research and how guest Dr. Ron Hickman, Associate Dean for Research at Case Western Reserve University, is using his platforms as nursing scientist and dean to advance health equity research and education.

In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with Brian Castrucci, CEO and president of the de Beaumont Foundation, about newly released data from the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PHWINS). The data reveal the level of physical and mental exhaustion the public health workforce has been experiencing as a result of battling not only the worst pandemic in a century but also an unprecedented level of politicization that has, in many instances, led to threats of violence toward public health workers.

Dr. Gulzar Shah talks to Dr. Beth Seltzer and Dr. Heather Krasna, authors of 101+ Careers in Public Health, about the many career paths available in the field of public health.

JPHMP Editor-in-chief Lloyd F. Novick speaks with Dr. Brian C. Moyer, Director of the National Center for Health Statistics, about the role of Healthy People 2030.

In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, guests Dr. Juliet Iwelunmor, Dr. Ucheoma Nwaozuru, and Ms. Alexis Engelhart describe a new public health literary journal called LIGHT that aims to center the public in public health.

Dawn Hunter and Zo Mpofu talk about their work in developing a countywide Racial Equity Action Plan to support transformative dialogue, increase civic engagement, and formalize efforts to advance racial equity in Buncombe County, North Carolina.

In this podcast, authors Maya Scherer and Alexandra Kamler describe the value of using public deliberation to set priorities for COVID-19 vaccine distribution for essential workers in New York City. Read their article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2022&issue=01000&article=00014&type=Fulltext

JPHMP Editor-in-chief Lloyd Novick speaks with Kristina Y. Risley and Christina R. Welter about best practices for enacting change at different levels while describing the factors, processes, skills, and tools required for leading complex change.

Editor-in-chief Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with Dr. Naoko Muramatsu about Battling Structural Racism Against Asians in the United States: Call for Public Health to Make the “Invisible” Visible, an article which appears in a new supplement, Public Health Interventions to Address Health Disparities Associated with Structural Racism. Read the article: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2022/01001/Battling_Structural_Racism_Against_Asians_in_the.2.aspx

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 -- one in which every American can attain their full health potential. ADM Levine's storied career, first, as a physician in academic medicine, focused on the intersection between mental and physical health, treating children, adolescents, and young adults. Then as Pennsylvania's Physician General and later as Pennsylvania's Secretary of Health, she addressed COVID-19, the opioid crisis, behavioral health, and other public health challenges. Dr. Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, spoke with Dr. Levine about Healthy People 2030 and its role in helping us build back the health of our nation after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2021/05001/The_SARS_CoV_2_Pandemic__Real_Time_Training_and.3.aspx https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2021/05001/The_Development_and_Implementation_of_Preventive.4.aspx

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 Practice, discuss  the roles of law and policy throughout the development of Healthy People 2030. Read "Law and Policy as Tools in Healthy People 2030" in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice" here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Abstract/9000/Law_and_Policy_as_Tools_in_Healthy_People_2030.99167.aspx

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 Prevention programs for the breadth of skills, competencies, and workforce capacity necessary to be highly effective in the future. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/31twEQB

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/currenttoc.aspx Read the supplement for FREE here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/toc/2021/05001

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 expect to learn in the new course.

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.

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, Camelia Singletary speaks with Dr. Kristen Krause about her article, "Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LBGTQ Communities." The commentary appears in the latest JPHMP supplement, COVID-19: Looking Back, Moving Forward. Read the article here: http://bit.ly/39uj3Op.

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 trials in the US?

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.

Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Peter Watts, an elections law attorney in Oregon, about the importance of using plain language when sharing information with public audiences. As a city attorney who often writes ballot titles for taxes and levies in state and local elections, Peter has learned that using legalese and technical jargon can confuse voters and impact election results, particularly when the audience includes immigrants, non-English or limited-English speaking voters, or those with lower education levels.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Louise Hyneman, a St. Louis University MPH student, discusses her public health journey. Her experiences and interests surround working with food insecurity, like her internship with the St. Louis Area Food Bank. Louise also has an interest in economic development as a potential way to work towards sustainable changes in health outcomes.

In the fifth episode of Views from the Front Porch, Dr. Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Cindy Perry, the Elizabeth N. Gray Distinguished Professor and an Associate Professor at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon. Cindy has blended her personal and professional interests to weave together an extensive line of community-based participatory research with predominantly Latinx communities in Oregon to address health disparities with physical activity.

Dr. Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Dr. Jenine K. Harris, author of a new statistics book for social scientists called Statistics with R: Solving Problems Using Real-World Data.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, host Camelia Singletary speaks with Jade Conway, an MPH student at St. Louis University. Jade's work primarily focuses on maternal and child health, on both a domestic and global scale. Her most recent public health experience took her to Mpunde, Uganda. As a part of a project entitled Empower Through Health, she and her colleagues have had the opportunity to perform quantitative and qualitative community health needs assessments and focus group discussions to assist in understanding and prioritizing community needs and identified public health needs for the Buyende District and the catchment area of the Mpunde Health Center of rural eastern Uganda.

In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with Dr. Michael Fraser, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), about articles published in the May/June 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. This issue focuses on the opioid epidemic.

In this episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Dr. Christiaan Abildso talks with Dr. Noah Lenstra, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Noah approaches rural physical activity using his expertise in library sciences and his personal upbringing in a town of about 3,000 people in northwestern Illinois that, like many rural places, suffers from health disparities in chronic diseases.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Dr. Mehrete Girmay discusses some of her current work surrounding loneliness and isolation. Dr. Girmay is currently a Public Health Analyst for the Health Resources and Services Administration in the Office of Health Equity. As an advocate for health equity and social justice, her research has been focused on investigating social determinants of health on a national and global scale

Drs. John Marr and Lloyd Novick continue their conversation on COVID-19, this time discussing serological testing for COVID-19 virus as a component of a smarter public health strategy, a strategy that has been suggested by Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York. As Dr. Novick notes in the following podcast, the New York State Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory has excellent past experience with performing mass serological testing for HIV in the newborn and other at-risk populations. Two articles by Dr. Novick et al describe how in a 21/2-year-period HIV serological testing was done for more than 650,000 specimens on newborns. This is a marked underestimate of capacity since serological testing at that time included other groups including those attending sexually transmitted disease clinics and family planning clinics. This experience shows that with a concerted effort large-scale testing of the population is possible.

In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with Colleen Barbero, Lindsay Cloud, and Lance Gable about Advancing Legal Epidemiology, a new supplement published March 2020 in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.