Name: Dr. Ellyn Mulcahy: What Is Public Health? by JPHMPDirect
Duration: 1 min 43 s
Description: Dr. Ellyn Mulcahy describes what public health means to her on a personal and a professional level.

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Dr. Ellyn Mulcahy describes what public health means to her on a personal and a professional level.

Dr. Ellyn Mulcahy: What Is Public Health?

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Drs. Lloyd F. Novick and Cynthia Morrow, co-editors of JPHMP's 21 Public Health Case Studies on Policy & Administration (Wolters Kluwer, 2017), join host Camelia Singletary, MPH, live at the American Public Health Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss why the editors chose to focus on the case-based learning strategies presented in their new book and the ways that realistic insight gleaned from actual case examples will be beneficial to future public health professionals.

Public Health Perspectives Episode 1: Drs. Lloyd F. Novick and Cynthia Morrow

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, join host Camelia Singletary, MPH, as she speaks with Lizzie Corcoran on experiences with public health leadership and the development of future public healthcare workers.

Lizzie Corcoran Lizzie is the 2017-2018 ASPPH Philanthropy Fellow at the de Beaumont Foundation.

Public Health Perspectives Episode 2: Conversation on Leadership with Lizzie Corcoran

In this special episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo take a deep dive into the state of the federal health law, what happened in 2017 and the Affordable Care Act's viability going forward.

What The Health

Episode 40: Alive And Limping: ACA In The Age Of Trump

This episode of JPHMP Direct TALK focuses on an editorial published in the July/August 2018 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, titled “Deaths of Despair and Building a National Resilience Strategy” by John Auerbach and Benjamin Miller, an editorial written in response to the Pain in the Nation report released by Trust for America’s Health, which elucidates the alarming statistics related to deaths caused by drug overdoses, alcohol, and suicide, and what actions our nation must implement in order to foster a resilience strategy and end these epidemics. Guests: John Auerbach and Elena Vidrascu
Read "Deaths of Despair and Building a National Resilience Strategy" by John Auerbach,  MBA, and Benjamin Miller, PsyD, published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice at https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2018/07000/Deaths_of_Despair_and_Building_a_National.1.aspx

Deaths of Despair: A Conversation with John Auerbach on Fatalities from Drugs, Alcohol, and Suicide

In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, Les Beitsch, MD, JD, and Ron Chapman, MD, MPH, chat with PHAB Communications Manager Teddi Nicolaus about how public health accreditation is driving the use of Quality Improvement and Performance Management at health departments. Dr. Beitsch is the Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Chapman serves as Health Officer for California’s Yolo County. The discussion draws on Dr. Chapman’s commentary, “Public Health Accreditation Impact: The Performance Management System,” and a research report co-authored by Dr. Beitsch titled “Has Voluntary Public Health Accreditation Impacted Health Department Perceptions and Activities in Quality Improvement and Performance Management?” The reports are featured in a special supplement to the May/June 2018 Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which highlights the value and impact of health department accreditation.

PHAB Interview with Drs. Les Beitsch and Ron Chapman

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, LaTonya Bynum shares insights into preparing for the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) examination, which measures knowledge in the Seven Areas of Responsibility for Health Education Specialists delineated by A Competency-Based Framework for Health Education Specialists 2015. 

LaTonya Bynum is the Healthcare Technical Writer for the Health and Life Sciences Department of DXC Technology, a global end-to-end IT company. Recently, she earned her MPH with an emphasis in Health Policy and Management from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. In addition, she holds a bachelor of science degree in Health Education with a concentration in Community Health and Spanish. Last year, Bynum founded U.R.A. Resource Center, LLC, a public health consulting firm specializing in creative/technical writing, public speaking, and research/data analysis.

Preparing for the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) Examination

In this episode of JPHMP Direct TALK, Elena Vidrascu, MSc, JPHMP Direct contributor of the series Preventing America’s Next Drug Epidemic: A Multidisciplinary Approach, discusses whether and how screen time and media content may be impacting the developing minds of youngsters growing up in the digital age. In this two-part series, she'll examine the potential consequences and correlations of screen time, attention, and substance abuse.

Elena Vidrascu on Screen Time and Substance Abuse

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Terri Floyd, MS, a business analyst with Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, shares her career path in health information technology.

Health Information Technology with Terri Floyd, MS

This month we tackle a major crisis occurring in the governmental public health workforce, in state and local health departments. With JP Leider I review the massive wave of retirement that will slash a third of the workforce, with Karen DeSalvo I discuss what needs to be done to adapt the workforce to the current needs and challenges of public health 3.0, and with Katie Sellers we discuss how PH-WINS is conducted and what it tells us about the current interests and needs of the workforce.

AJPH MAY 2019: “PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE: THREATENED BY MASS EXTINCTION?” (ENGLISH)

JPHMP Direct is the online companion site of the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice.

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