In this episode, Sujani sits down with Dr. Jan Carney, the Associate Dean for Public Health and Health Policy and Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont. They discuss Jan’s reflections of the relationship between public health and healthcare, her work in pulling together UVM’s graduate public health program, and ways we can work to expand and integrate public health into new fields.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
- When public health first became a topic of interest during Jan’s clinical practice
- Jan’s experience transitioning from direct patient care to community based health
- Patience and seeing impact and results from public health work
- Jan’s experience working as the Commissioner of Health in Vermont and her transition into academia
- The work and team that went into creating the University of Vermont’s graduate public health program
- What edupreneurship is and how it can be used to improve education
- The conversations and steps needed to expand public health into nontraditional health fields and what this means for population health
Today’s Guest:
Dr. Carney is Associate Dean for Public Health and Health Policy, and Professor of Medicine, at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont (UVM). She earned an AB from Middlebury College, MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Harvard School of Public Health. She previously served as Vermont’s Commissioner of Health under three gubernatorial administrations. In this role, she developed and implemented Vermont’s first outcome-based approach to improving public health, modeled on the national Healthy People initiative, combining clinical and community-based prevention.
Dr. Carney’s areas of expertise include building and sustaining community-academic partnerships, translational research, and reducing disparities in rural areas. She serves as Core Director of the Community Engagement and Outreach Core for the Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research Network (NNE-CTR), working to advance rural health research and community engagement. Her current work focuses on developing and implementing the Vermont Rural Health Communication Network (RHCN) to promote two-way health communication in rural areas, strengthen access to health and social services, and improve health and scientific literacy. She is a member of the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health, serving on academic public health practice and advocacy committees, and serves as a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians.
Featured on the Show:
- Connect with Jan on LinkedIn
- Learn more about Health People 2030
- Listen to the previous episode with Sue Griffey
- Read the Institute of Medicine’s writing on The Future of Public Health
- Learn more about edupreneurship
