The critical importance of academic public health is to one, engender trust in young adults that public health is a profession that matters by demonstrating that we actually care about people that we look and act and feel like the population that we aren’t just these talking heads that live in universities but that we take our work into the field in real time to improve lives. So, academic public health also needs to push itself and think about how it is that we’re training the next generation—like how do you talk to the media how do you talk to a legislator how do you undo misinformation. I think if we do that and we modernize our curriculum just a little bit building on the really strong foundations that are already there we will have a generation of public health leaders that are going to be equipped to put public health front and center in our society.
