Would widespread exposure to a livestreamed public execution plausibly increase sleep disturbances, fatigue-related traffic accidents, workplace injuries, or other health events over the following days? What data and study design would be best for detecting such an effect? How pronounced would it be?

Hi everyone! I’m an IB student in NYC working on an engagement project about healthcare inequalities.
My research question is: “How do New York’s healthcare policies reduce inequalities in access to healthcare for migrant women?”
For this project, I need to engage directly with people involved in this issue through interviews and discussions. I’m looking to connect with:
Immigrant women who have experience accessing healthcare in NYC.
Healthcare professionals, such as nurses, doctors, and caregivers.
People working in hospitals, community health centers, or immigrant support organizations.
People involved in NYC public health policy or government services.
If you’re willing to participate in a short interview, know someone I could contact, or have any advice or resources that could help with my research, I’d really appreciate it!
Thank you so much!

Hi, everyone! I’m working on a project focused on public health and exploring how we can improve MPH programs. I’d love to hear from people who are interested in pursuing public health, currently studying it, or already working in the field!

I have a few questions and would really appreciate any insights you’re willing to share:
- What inspired you to pursue public health?

-What are you looking for (or what did you look for) in a public health or MPH program?

- If you’re currently in the field, what are you doing with your degree?

-What skills, experiences, or opportunities do you think are most important for an MPH program to offer?

-Is there anything you wish your program had done differently or offered more of?

Feel free to share as much or as little as you’d like. I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences and perspectives. Thank you!

I am looking to go back to school and would like some advice on pursuing a public health degree. For context, I am 31 and have been working in overdose prevention/harm reduction programming for roughly the last ten years. My experience began in direct services with Narcan and SSP supply distribution, and from there I was mentored by some amazing people and taught to write grants, programs, and policies, and manage them. I have worked for state public health departments, the CDC, harm reduction organizations, and everything in between. I currently work under SAMSHA funding providing regional overdose prevention planning for multiple counties. I also have a private consulting firm where I work with hospitals, health facilities, governments, and other organizations to implement harm reduction programs and policies, obtain and manage funding, and provide technical assistance.

My main issue is that because I do not have even an undergrad, I feel I am missing out on a lot of opportunities from a career standpoint and it seems to be increasingly difficult to be taken seriously as a professional in the state I live in. I'd like to go back to school and one day even pursue a Masters or PhD. I'm wondering if it would be beneficial for me to go back to school sooner rather than later. With my current funding we are partnered with a local university where I have some incredible colleagues in their school of public health, but I'm just unsure on when and what track might make the most sense. I figured this sub might help. Thank you so much in advance!

PS, I was in school at one point for English but...drugs. I am now thriving and using my lived experience to center people who use drugs in the programs designed to support them, but I just got so busy working that school got put on the backburner for me.

The Franklin County Coroner’s Office has confirmed that a sixth person has died in the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania. The person was a 39-year-old woman who, according to the coroner’s office, “had several underlying conditions, including a past diagnosis of measles with treatment.” The full statement is attached and can be found on the coroner’s Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BMhKpSKGF/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Pennsylvania leads the United States in measles cases in 2026, with over 1,100 confirmed cases and 219 reported hospitalizations. The full measles dashboard can be seen here: https://www.pa.gov/agencies/health/diseases-conditions/infectious-disease/measles

For a global perspective: As of the week of October 12, 2026, measles remains a global public-health threat, with outbreaks occurring in every region. The latest available international surveillance highlights substantial activity in Bangladesh, Guatemala, India, Yemen, Pakistan, and Mexico. (Reporting lags mean these figures do not reflect this week’s transmission in real time.)

Persistent vaccination gaps are sustaining the resurgence: WHO estimates that only 77% of children worldwide received both measles vaccine doses in 2025, leaving approximately 29 million infants underprotected. In the Americas, PAHO has assessed the regional risk as “very high.”

Hey everyone! I’m an MPH student, and I applied to give an oral presentation at the APHA conference this year. My research was waitlisted, but someone dropped out and they reached out and asked if I would like to fill the spot. I accepted, and am delighted with the opportunity, but I’m freaking out because it’s in just 2 and half weeks! The hotel blocks have all ended, plane ticket prices are fairly high, and I’ve never been to a conference or even organized any out of state travel that wasn’t driving before!! Can anyone give me a run down of what to expect, or offer any advice!?

Studies show that when you take the medication within three days of exposure, it reduces your chance of getting COVID by two-thirds. “And even if you do get COVID, the infection seems to be milder and somewhat briefer,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine in the department of health policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Hi guys,

I'm taking my CHES exam this Thursday... and was wondering if anybody can provide some tips? I have the NCHEC textbook and find random quizlets on the different areas of responsibility to study from. I also use chatgpt to help quiz me and this website: https://open-exam-prep.com/practice/ches#google_vignette, however, I feel like these questions are too easy compared to the actual practice questions that are in the back of the textbook?? I've been highlighting and putting sticky notes on important concepts/ key terms/ models/ theories like crazy!

I want and NEEED to pass and am desperate for tips!! Thank you in advance :)

Hi everyone. I just applied to several CDC ORISE fellowships in public health data/informatics (MS in Health Informatics, 2024). The waiting is already getting to me, so I figured I'd ask people who've been through it:
- How long after the deadline did you hear anything?
- What was the interview like?
- Anything you wish you'd known while waiting?
Thanks in advance — this is my dream and I'm trying not to refresh my email every five minutes.

Conversations to Remember is looking for volunteers who can remotely volunteer for as little as an hour per week.

We have one hour per week positions for volunteers 17-25 years old who are interested in speaking with seniors to alleviate feelings of loneliness and social isolation, a key social determinant of health. Our program works with many seniors who are living with cognitive decline (mild to advanced) so this is a great opportunity for exposure to an underserved portion of the population who could use assistance.

If you're interested in opportunities to contribute more, we have volunteer or internship positions in public health promotion and volunteer outreach too that are open to individuals 18+. Check out our website for more information about this opportunity or just register to volunteer.

Training will be provided.

Descriptions of open roles can be found here.

I’m a social work intern tasked with creating a trauma-informed pandemic plan for a private mental health practice serving children and young adults.

I’d love to hear from social workers who worked during the pandemic!

What policies or practices made you feel safer working with clients?
What did your workplace do well, and what could have been better?
How did your agency support staff’s mental health and well-being?
What do you wish your workplace had done differently?
What should every agency or private practice include in a pandemic preparedness plan?

I’d really appreciate any experiences or lessons learned. Thank you!

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/hepatitis/hepatitis-b-vaccine-study-condemned-unethical-wins-approval-danish-university

How did this shit even get approved? Withholding the hepatitis B vaccine in a country where the disease is widespread is just cruel. It runs afoul of the very ethics of public health to say the least.

Things are weird, for lack of a better term. The federal government, once a champion of public health (and science in general), is now an adversary. We legit have an HHS Secretary who funded (and founded) a group that has made it clear that it is their mission to get rid of vaccines. We have a who’s who of anti-vaccine activists and their allies at the top. They’ve defunded public health programs and don’t seem to care how state and local health departments are doing.

Unless you're a cyborg or large language model, I'm sure you're feeling some of the effects of all of this.

I need you to know that you are not alone. Millions of us in this country care about what is going on, and we're doing something about it. From funding our favorite non-profits to donating our time, to doing our work as best we can, putting on our headphones and crunching the data (preparing slides, writing papers, talking to people, delivering care, presenting posters)… Any public health workers worth their salt are doing something. Big or small, we're doing something.

If you're feeling extra stressed, or worse, please reach out to someone. Talk to a friend or trusted family member. If things are really bad, reach out to a health professional.

We need to be okay so we can keep working to make others okay. Not perfect. Not excellent. Just okay.

Burnout is real, my friends. And the current administration is doing its best to make us feel isolated and hopeless. Don't let them burn us out.

Take care.

If you haven’t heard of PANS or PANDAS:
PANS stands for Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. PANDAS stands for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections.

I didn’t learn about PANS or PANDAS until I got sick with 3 tick borne diseases. I’ve become a patient advocate and have learned how much these conditions actually occur. Both conditions are triggered by inflammation of the brain. And while PANDAS is named after a streptococcal infection, it can also be triggered by an undiagnosed tick borne infection. 😬

The hallmark of both PANS and PANDAS is a sudden, and often OVERNIGHT change in a person’s behavior. OCD-like behaviors, Tourette’s-like behaviors, restrictive eating, rage, depression, insomnia and more. I’ve spoken to several parents who’s children were effected, and it sounds like a nightmare. Their child stops eating, or starts getting violent, and they become a different person.

While it’s typically something that happens to children, I just interviewed a man whose adult son had it (he was 21).

The good news is, it’s treatable. Bad news is, many doctors don’t know anything about PANS or PANDAS, and some even think it’s not real! The other bad news is, anything PANS/PANDAS related is NOT covered by insurance.

I don't know about you all, but I'm seriously wondering if we even have a functioning CDC Director. Measles is killing in Pennsylvania and spreading elsewhere. A kid died from invasive Hib in Montana. Pertussis is coming back. Mumps hit the football team at San Diego State.

And that's just the vaccine-preventable diseases.

Russia is playing around with plague. Ebola continues to rage in the DRC and Uganda. Bangladesh is awash in measles and dengue.

And that's just infectious diseases.

Opioid and synthetic drug overdoses continue. Kids are more lonely than ever. Rules on environmental health protections are being rolled back. Cities are removing fluoride from their water.

And Dr. Schwartz is nowhere to be found. No communication. No comment. No… leadership?

I know from friends and colleagues at CDC that they're working, and working hard. But do we have a CDC Director?

Ah, she talked at a forum with the Wall Street Journal yesterday, and the contents are sitting comfortably behind a paywall, with a few excerpts available on social media.

I take it all back. (Not.)

Hello, I am a sophomore in college, majoring in Integrated Health Science with a minor in public health. I want to know if it is possible to break into the public health field with an IHS degree. Or do I really have to major in public health for future jobs? The thing is that I've been researching, and I've been getting mixed signals about whether you need to major in PH if you want certain certifications. But later on, if I want to get my master's in Public health. I've heard it will kind of be redundant, hearing the same information in undergrad, and that it won't be as interesting. So let me know ya'll thoughts

We all know medical hesitancy gets all the news but I feel like we're ignoring the group that would be more receptive to public health interventions and wanted to get some opinions.

How hard is ECU’s DrPH program ? I’ve been debating about applying to the program for a couple of months now and I’m really interested into their leadership concentration, due to me wanting to get my nursing home license.

Also what is the cost for an average fill time student in state ?

Hello everyone!

I am wondering what the acceptance rate for Harvard's mph programs overall looks like these days? I do remember seeing some statistics more than a decade ago, but am not sure what it's like as of recently.

If anyone has any info at all, I would be super grateful.

Thanks so much all!

I got my B.S. in public health 2 years ago, interned at a local non-profit focused on reducing air pollutants in my city and increasing lung-health resources my entire senior year, then for my first job post-grad, I worked HR & Admin for a healthcare company (it wasn’t my first choice but I believed it was within enough proximity to what I went to school for) I left that job a few months ago and I’m now working in office management for a finance company.

The pay is higher than any healthcare/public health job could’ve offered me (applied to about 100 jobs with close to 20 interviews in the span of 4 months) and it was also the only job that extended an offer to me. I focused strictly on applying to health-related jobs before opening up to jobs in different industries. Although I’m relieved that I’m no longer unemployed, I mourn being in a familiar space, working alongside people who came from a similar background as me, and people who I thought I’d eventually become.

Has anyone else experienced this? Did you ever find your way back into the field? Or have you completely transitioned into a different industry?

Hi everyone! I’m a Grade 12 highschool student in Canada working on an independent research project for school to help me get accepted into university for a BH. I’m writing a research paper on how air pollution affects human health, both physically and neurologically, and how those effects differ between communities around the world.

As part of my project, I’m hoping to learn from people who live in different countries and communities, and their personal experiences with air pollution. If you live in an area where air pollution is a noticeable issue, I’d love to hear:
- What is air pollution like where you live?
- Is air pollution something people around you are concerned about, or is it mostly overlooked?
- Do you notice air pollution affecting the health of your community?

Thank you so much for reading and for sharing your perspective! :)

Hi all. I’m a public health nurse at a LHD. I’ve been handling off-site / mobile vaccine clinics around our county and am looking for advice and tips on best practices on: capturing enough information for billing private insurances (if they have it!), using carbon copy forms for registration, using EPIC for mass immunization events, and any general advice or support you may have. I would also love input on how your organization handles nursing capacity for immunization events - especially on weekends and after normal working hours.

EDIT: THE TITLE SHOULD BE: Canadian Healthcare PSA. Didn't realize until I posted that I hit the wrong key

I don’t know if research is the right tag. I am currently in school for nursing have a project coming up where we have to create a PSA with a target demographic and of course about a health/medical issue we think needs more attention. I was thinking of doing one on the lack of female CPR dummies and the fact that women are less likely to get CPR and when they do it’s more likely to be incorrect, but I found out another person is pretty much doing that topic and I’d rather not repeat a topic.

What is a health issue that you think needs more attention?