Source: https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/s-next-public-health
Schools of Public Health, more than ever, must shift their training toward interdisciplinary, transformational navigation of “the complex political, economic, and ideological terrain that public health is faced with.” It’s all of us together – Epidemiologists, Community Health Scientists and Practitioners, Historians, Leadership, Implementation and Interventional Scientists and Practitioners, etc.
Public health is rapidly evolving and “a deeper understanding of the past can inform how we approach persistent health disparities.” This means structural changes, systems changes, policy changes, environmental changes, etc., that reach across disciplinary bumper lanes to widen our partnerships with Schools of Public Health to “facilitate the translation and implementation of public health discoveries into practice at the population level.” I’m so grateful to be clinical faculty so my work can focus on “such things as community-led public health interventions, workforce development, or public health and legal partnerships…” Funding sources, grants, and other monies often “limit our field’s mission in ways that can be antithetical to promoting the sociocultural changes needed to improve the public’s health.”
Schools of Public Health can shape and shift the action on these matters and lead us to achieving intended outcomes. #ODU #EVMS #NSU #JointSchoolofPublicHealth #PublicHealth