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Can I work in public health without a master’s degree?
PH SPOT December 1, 2021
As you contemplate the next step in your career – whether you’ve already decided to pursue grad school, are still unsure about continuing your education,
Art as a Tool for Public Health Engagement: A Canadian Overview
Taboo Health November 3, 2021
Written by: Helen Chen and Edited: by Maria Cheung In 2019, the United Nations General Assembly declared that 2021 was to be the International year
Tips for applying to a public health PhD program
Multiple Authors October 20, 2021
Written by: Emma McGee, Tigist Menkir, Lorelei Mucci, Kelsey Vercammen So, you’re thinking of applying to a PhD program? While this is an exciting time
Putting the pieces together towards a public health degree.
Nikita Singh September 22, 2021
In September 2020, I started my Master of Public Health degree at the University of Western Ontario, however, by slightly different circumstances. I was going
Can Art and Culture Heal our Collective Traumas?
Taboo Health September 8, 2021
Written by: Maria Cheung and Edited by: Helen Chen Recovering from Pandemic Times Public Health, as described by the World Health Organization, is “The art
My International Journey in Public Health
Prachi Cooner August 25, 2021
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” -Martin Luther King, Jr The reason for choosing healthcare as my career
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READ | featured public health book recommendation
THE GREAT INFLUENZA: THE STORY OF THE DEADLIEST PANDEMIC IN HISTORY by John M. Barry
“Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, “The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that…those in authority must retain the public’s trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart.” At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.”
