A panel of experts discusses the three pillars of Food Equity and what can be done to ensure all families have access to good food in every zip code.
Leaders will discuss the landscape of abortion access and reproductive justice in the wake of the Dobbs decision. Attendees will learn what public health can do to protect access to comprehensive reproductive health care, and how we can uphold and support the work reproductive justice advocates have been doing for decades.
Environmental health means paying attention to how all the places we work, play and live are affecting health. Monitoring health threats, building better infrastructure and involving the community in local decisions help ensure everyone’s health and well-being. Find out more in this episode of "That's Public Health" from APHA and Complexly.
In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world's political and economic organizations, inequities that make marginalized people more vulnerable. These same structural problems exist in the United States today, and as New York City's Health Commissioner, Bassett is using every chance she has to rally support for health equity and speak out against racism.
Learn about the many public health career paths, including government public health careers, community health nurses and workers, careers in biostatistics, and global health careers.
Learn about being a public health nurse.
Learn about the professions of community health workers and educators.
Learn what a behavioral Scientist does.
Learn about the job of a laboratory professional.
See what a biostatistician does in the public health field.
Learn about the career of an epidemiologist.
Schools scared to death
The truth is, one education under desks,
Stooped low from bullets;
That plunge when we ask
Where our children
Shall live
& how
& if