Category: Faculty/Staff – Leadership & Influence
When Experience Becomes Advocacy: Empowering Public Health Through Accessibility
Grace Harmoush
American University of Beirut
Accessibility isn’t just an educational issue, it’s also a public health necessity. I chose public health as a career because I grew up understanding that health is shaped less by...
Turning Loss into Purpose: A Journey into Public Health
Ashish Joshi, PhD, MBBS, MPH
What really inspired me to be in public health is that I lost my father when I was in a medical school, and the first thing came to my mind...
Turning Science into Action
Hilary Godwin, PhD
My path into public health is a little non-traditional. I actually got my PhD in chemistry and was a chemistry professor as an associate professor and I got into public...
The Value of Life in Public Health
Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP
The most important things facing public health educators today is the sense of caring about whether we live or whether we die. Human life seems to be much devalued these...
The Titanic, Sociology, and an Introduction to Public Health
Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD
Actually, it may be a surprise to many people but I do not have a degree in public health. I was actually working on a PhD in demography and sociology....
The Magic and Responsibility of Science in Shaping Public Health Policy
Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, RADM, USPHS (Ret.)
The definition of science is what? Science is magic but it’s real, so we take magic. We get that aspiration of what could be, but it’s based on reality, and...
Teaching the Public Health Mindset
Mike Honsberger, PhD
One of the things that I talk to our faculty a lot about is how to portray their expertise this is something that our faculty and our experts in public...
Recognizing the True Impact of Public Health
Edith Parker, MPH, DrPH
I think the impact of public health is great and I think that we in public health are sometimes too humble and don’t really say how much of the contribution....
Public Health: A Calling and a Foundation for Every Career
Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH
Public health is a great career. Choose it. Public health is a great area of study even if you don’t make it your final career. So I have almost 1,500...