Public Health Thank You Day
Dr. Katie Schenk
Epidemiologist, public health informatics specialist, advocate and community builder for the public health workforce
What even is it? Let's make it constructive.
Apparently, this week marked the celebration of Public Health Thank You Day.
I’m not even sure what that is. I think I first heard of it last year, from within one of the lowest points of my depths of public health unemployment.
Many of my friends, colleagues, and contacts who are also public health professionals also appear to be unsure about #PublicHealthThankYouDay, although we have some vague wooly positive feelings towards people who want to say “thank you” to us for conducting tasks that they don’t seem to understand either.
Can anyone out there provide any background on who came up with #PHTYD and its goals? Please get in touch. It would be great to use it to be constructive together with the public health workforce.....✂️
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