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Inspired by Dr. Fred Ssewamala, PhD, the visionary founding director of ICHAD, for his brilliant presentation on the future of public health. His insights are paving the way for transformative public health solutions globally. #ICHADForum2024 #GlobalHealthResearch

Read about training for the public health workforce in National Network of Public Health Institutes publication, Elevate, below!

I read these journal articles constantly and am so thankful for the research the Gillings School has conducted to prove the dangers of drinking water in private wells that has not taken my own health, but are real and present concerns to North Carolinians. With lax legislation over farming with open waste, endocrine disrupting herbicides, chemicals, reckless land use it seems there’s more funding “supposed conservation initiatives” that some, but not all respect after project completion, Fish, Game and Wildlife than public health, which is critically important to the state. The vitality of streams, creeks and rivers go hand in hand w human health. While I understand commercial animal operations are financially important to agriculture, why public health takes a back seat vexes me. Tell my kidneys and heart attack from sepsis even after my well was professionally sanitized from the research on my first essay, where I cited a paper from the Gillings School. The bacterial / nutrient load by the metric ton is that impactful living on a floodplain beneath a working cattle farm. It’s across the state. Recently finished an Annotated Bibliography with their recently published articles from last winter with NCWELL Database of 20 years of cumulative research. Another article states 98% of gastrointestinal illnesses in all North Carolina Emergency Rooms are from contaminated water, not food sources. Their research will help grant writing for my community of color, lesser incomes, and women for six miles to the reservoir, who need better education to test, sanitize and to obtain expensive filtration for wells, because of environmental injustice more favorable to farmers than public health. Their departments stand united in research and the information has empowered others who research with irrefutable evidence to have better presentation skills as I take up an invitation to speak at a major university on environmental injustice this year.

Subject-matter expertise is vital for public health campaigns to be impactful and move the needle. Learn more in this piece from my ICF colleagues Scott Wolfson, Jennifer Folsom, and Vickie Gogo. https://bit.ly/3U9uSQm

Excited to share the latest edition of Elevate. Check out the article I co-authored on pg. 6 which highlights incorporating a relational model in training and technical assistance to promote, trust, equity, and collaboration!

Public Health Researchers Detail Way Forward Post-Pandemic https://lnkd.in/gx5z39qH In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. public health system must focus on critical questions of accountability, politicization and updating data systems if it is to do its job well and maintain the [...]

An abstract got accepted from the Center of Excellence and Science of implementation and scale-up ( CoE-SISU) in the "9th International Public Health Conference 2023 (Hybrid)" Public Health Challenges and Response in the post-COVID Era #Public Health Foundation BD

Have you submitted your abstracts for #TOPHC2025? This year’s theme is Insight to Impact: Leveraging evidence & collective expertise to advance public health practice. Check out our website for helpful tips and key info. https://vist.ly/3mizqgt

National Public Health Week Day 2 is here! During each day of National Public Health Week, SNHU's MPH team has created a one pager that focuses on a particular public health topic. The purpose is to help to highlight how each of us can make a difference on that topic. These areas are critical to our future success in creating the healthiest nation. Think about what you can do to help. Please see below to learn more about what can be done to provide Healthy Neighborhoods. #nationalpublichealthweek

We want your projects to have long standing impacts. Check out this article I co-authored about the 5 factors you should consider in your public health initiatives.