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As the holiday season continues, many plan to host larger celebrations and the immunization status of guests is becoming a topic of conversation. We are helping to make it easier to share your ...

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Dec 7

As the holiday season continues, many plan to host larger celebrations and the immunization status of guests is becoming a topic of conversation. We are helping to make it easier to share your vaccination status with these bold new graphics.

Learn how to access the downloadable files via the link in our bio.

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Hi everyone! My name is Lauren, and I will be taking over TIPH social media this week as a part of #AmbassadorTakeover. I'm currently a second-year PhD student in Epidemiology at University of ...

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Dec 6

Hi everyone! My name is Lauren, and I will be taking over TIPH social media this week as a part of #AmbassadorTakeover. I'm currently a second-year PhD student in Epidemiology at University of Maryland School of Public Health. I have many research interests, but most recently I am focused on COVID-19, vaccination, and vaccine hesitancy. I also have a passion for sharing information about public health - usually I do this as a Teaching Assistant (shout out to my students this semester). I am excited that this week I get to share with all of you!

Please feel free to drop questions you have about public health graduate studies in the comments.

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This week, we talked about HIV/ STIs. One way to prevent HIV/ STIs is through Sex Education. Swipe to learn about Sex Ed in the United States! #ambassadortakeover #thisispublichealth

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Dec 3

This week, we talked about HIV/ STIs. One way to prevent HIV/ STIs is through Sex Education. Swipe to learn about Sex Ed in the United States! #ambassadortakeover #thisispublichealth

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Today is World AIDS Day! Swipe through to learn more #ambassadortakeover #thisispublichealth

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Dec 1

Today is World AIDS Day! Swipe through to learn more #ambassadortakeover #thisispublichealth

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Hello everyone! We are excited to announce our TIPH Book Club selection for December-January. We will be reading “Dreamland” by Sam Quinones.

“Dreamland” details how the opioid ...

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Nov 30

Hello everyone! We are excited to announce our TIPH Book Club selection for December-January. We will be reading “Dreamland” by Sam Quinones.

“Dreamland” details how the opioid epidemic has spread to every part of the American landscape. Quinones’ writing parallels the illicit drug trade, the growth of opioid use and abuse, and the role of the medical community. The book highlights the complex and fascinating story of the opioid epidemic in a way that captivates many audiences.
We have divided the book into four parts following the author’s structure, and there will be a discussion post on Goodreads for each section. We will also be providing extra resources (i.e., podcasts, short articles) with each discussion post to dive deeper into the complexities of the opioid epidemic.

Please grab a copy of the book, start reading, and join us on Goodreads (link in bio) for our first discussion post on December 19th!

-- TIPH Ambassadors & Book Club Moderators Maddie K. and Liz L.

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My name is Aneeka, and I’m so excited to be taking over TIPH social media this week. I am a second year PhD student in Epidemiology at Tulane University. My research focuses on...

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Nov 29

Hi Everyone!

My name is Aneeka, and I’m so excited to be taking over TIPH social media this week. I am a second year PhD student in Epidemiology at Tulane University. My research focuses on infectious diseases, notably HIV, STIs, and more recently, COVID-19. I look forward to sharing my interests with you! Feel free to drop a comment or send me a message if there’s anything in these areas you’d like to learn about.

#infectiousdisease #epidemiology #ambassadortakeover #thisispublichealth

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Additional food for thought as we wind down this #ambassadortakeover talking all about diabetes. Taking a few steps into thinking through the larger picture of diabetes: the data, the risks, the ...

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Nov 27

Additional food for thought as we wind down this #ambassadortakeover talking all about diabetes. Taking a few steps into thinking through the larger picture of diabetes: the data, the risks, the people impacted, the challenges and the key role players in diabetes control, prevention and management!

#ambassadortakeover #diabetesmonthnovember

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According to the CDC, Diabetes (Diabetes Mettilus) is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States impacting approximately 34 million individuals in the US. Given the health care cost and ...

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Nov 24

According to the CDC, Diabetes (Diabetes Mettilus) is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States impacting approximately 34 million individuals in the US. Given the health care cost and overall burden of this disease, it is critical for prevention efforts and management strategies to target not only diabetes but the individual, community, and systemic risk factors also associated with this.

Enter stage left: “the public health approach”. The public health approach can be defined as a 4–5 step process in which various branches of public health collectively work together to address the scale of any given adverse public health event, and inform both control and prevention efforts. Our goals often overlap with the clinical approach which focuses on treatment. Both are critical for targeting diabetes and other diseases, disorders and illnesses.

Slide 6 details this approach in the 5 step model with examples of different branches function at each stage. While this is not a rigid structure its a great way to highlight the breadth of public health and all the amazing role players!

Which branch do you guys find yourself working in, or have interest in?

#publichealth #diabetesmonth #ambassadortakeover

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So thrilled to be joining you guys this week in another #ambassadortakeover! My name is Marshae, and I am a second year MPH student on the Epidemiology track at Vanderbilt University.

My ...

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Nov 23

So thrilled to be joining you guys this week in another #ambassadortakeover! My name is Marshae, and I am a second year MPH student on the Epidemiology track at Vanderbilt University.

My current research focuses on prenatal nutritional and environmental exposures and the development of atopic diseases in children. My career goal is to be an environmental epidemiologist studying early life total environmental exposures in vulnerable communities.

I am a super vocal advocate for public health, so I love taking advantage of every opportunity to discuss this field with fellow colleagues, collaborators and community members.

This week in alliance with National Diabetes Month, I will be highlighting Diabetes and the public health approach to it. Having said that I am around to discuss a wide array of public health topics and tips for students. Stay tuned !

#publichealth #ambassadortakeover #epidemiology

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Submitted by: TIPH Ambassador Erin Manalo-Pedro, MPH, CHES, PhD student, UCLA

"Thank you, Dr. Ford, for Public Health Critical Race Praxis! Thank you for spaces to find community, to ...

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Nov 22

Submitted by: TIPH Ambassador Erin Manalo-Pedro, MPH, CHES, PhD student, UCLA

"Thank you, Dr. Ford, for Public Health Critical Race Praxis! Thank you for spaces to find community, to engage in disciplinary self-critique, to center the margins in our research, and to reimagine what public health could be. Thank you for:

◾️Founding the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health in 2017,

◾️Bringing the UNC Minority Health Conference as a satellite conference to UCLA in 2019,

◾️Editing the APHA Press book Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional in 2019,

◾️Teaching courses like Racism and Public Health: Social Epidemiologic Concepts and Methods and Health Disparities, Health Equity and Sexual Minority Populations,

◾️Sustaining the Minority Training Program in Cancer Control Research (which helped me find my way into research), and

◾️Fixing my cap when I graduated with my MPH in 2015."

#PHTYD #ThisIsPublicHealth

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Submitted by: TIPH Ambassador Eliza S., MPH Student, University of Iowa College of Public Health

“Thank you faculty, staff, and students working at the University of Iowa Prevention ...

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Nov 22

Submitted by: TIPH Ambassador Eliza S., MPH Student, University of Iowa College of Public Health

“Thank you faculty, staff, and students working at the University of Iowa Prevention Research Center for Rural Health for your hard work and dedication to the field of public health. Over the past two years this team has worked to improve health outcomes within micropolitan communities, improve vaccinations, and develop health campaigns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.”

#PHTYD #ThisIsPublicHealth

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Submitted by: TIPH Ambassador Lauren K., MPH, Univ of Maryland School of Public Health

"Thank you to Dr. Quynh Nguyen, my wonderful advisor at the Univ of MD School of Public Health. ...

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Nov 22

Submitted by: TIPH Ambassador Lauren K., MPH, Univ of Maryland School of Public Health

"Thank you to Dr. Quynh Nguyen, my wonderful advisor at the Univ of MD School of Public Health. She is a professor and epidemiologist researching social and economic predictors of health using big data sources."

"Thank you to Dr. Typhanye Dyer, a professor and epidemiologist at the Univ of MD School of Public Health. Her regular messages to students have been a bright spot for us all in a confusing time. Her research focuses on the influence of social, behavioral, and psychological factors on HIV risk and outcomes in Black populations."

#PHTYD #ThisIsPublicHealth

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Submitted by: TIPH Ambassador Emily B., MPH student, Baylor University

"A big thank you goes to the Covid-19 Core Response Team at the Waco/McLennan County Public Health District in ...

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Nov 22

Submitted by: TIPH Ambassador Emily B., MPH student, Baylor University

"A big thank you goes to the Covid-19 Core Response Team at the Waco/McLennan County Public Health District in Waco, Texas. They have worked non-stop since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to serve and protect McLennan County residents from the spread of Covid-19 in the community. This team has worked together on weekends to report numbers and run vaccination clinics, and they have remained on-call to answer any questions from local agencies. The past year and a half has been trying on us all, and the challenges have only brought this team closer together. Courtney, Stephanie, Dr. Shah, Carol, Pranav, Lacey, Erin, and Dr. Verner; thank you."

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Join us this Public Health Thank You Day as we share our gratitude for all of the students, staff, faculty, practitioners, and organizations that help to make our world a healthier place for everyone!...

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Nov 22

Join us this Public Health Thank You Day as we share our gratitude for all of the students, staff, faculty, practitioners, and organizations that help to make our world a healthier place for everyone!

To celebrate #PHTYD, we will share posts that our This Is Public Health Ambassadors put together to express their gratitude for professors or organizations who have encouraged them along their path to public health.

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It’s feel-good Friday! This Friday, I want to highlight intersectionality as a (relatively) new way of viewing public health. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this term as a way of understanding the ...

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Nov 19

It’s feel-good Friday! This Friday, I want to highlight intersectionality as a (relatively) new way of viewing public health. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this term as a way of understanding the interwoven privileges and oppressions that come from various identities. For instance, a man who is Black, living with a disability, and from a lower socioeconomic status may have a deeply different experience navigating the United States’ health care system than a man who is Black, able-bodied and from a higher socioeconomic status.

We should FEEL GOOD that intersectionality is rapidly becoming the standard in addressing various populations’ and individuals’ unique health needs.

Thanks all for a great week of #AmbassadorTakeover! Please feel free to send any questions you may have about violence prevention our way.

“Gang violence is connected to bullying is connected to school violence is connected to intimate partner violence is connected to child abuse is connected to elder abuse. It’s all connected.” -Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD

#ThisIsPublicHealth #StudentAmbassador #Intersectionality #ViolencePrevention #IntersectionalApproaches #BlackLivesMatter #FeelGoodFriday

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From the start of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, intimate partner and family violence rates have seen a drastic increase. It is vital for public health practitioners to understand that one form of ...

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Nov 17

From the start of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, intimate partner and family violence rates have seen a drastic increase. It is vital for public health practitioners to understand that one form of protection (i.e., lockdown to prevent spread of the virus) can inadvertently exasperate outside risk factors (i.e., increased isolation with people who perpetrate violence).

Increased efforts to screen for and address both COVID and exposure to violence among historically vulnerable populations are vital as we transition further away from lockdown mandates.

#ambassadortakeover #tiph #thisispublichealth #publichealth #covid #covidpandemic #intersections #violenceandcovid #violenceprevention #stopviolenceagainstwomen #stopviolence

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Sexual violence IS preventable! Using a public health lens is a scientifically-based and empirically-backed way to prevent this, and other, forms of violence. Content warning: sexual violence is ...

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Nov 15

Sexual violence IS preventable! Using a public health lens is a scientifically-based and empirically-backed way to prevent this, and other, forms of violence. Content warning: sexual violence is discussed at length in this post.

My name is Claire and I’ll be taking over the TIPH Instagram this week. I’m a second year dual MPH/MSW student at @uclafsph and @uclaluskin, focusing on violence and harm reduction, specifically in the realm of sexual violence among college and university populations across the globe. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions! #ambassadortakeover #thisispublichealth #publichealthprofessionals #violenceprevention #preventingsexualviolence #sexualviolenceprevention #endsexualviolence #publichealthgraduate #mph #msw

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Prioritizing representation, inclusivity, and equity in research and data collection is vital to be able to identify disparities and inequities #ambassadortakeover

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Nov 10

Prioritizing representation, inclusivity, and equity in research and data collection is vital to be able to identify disparities and inequities #ambassadortakeover

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Explore our Finance Your Degree database for funding opportunities to make your path to a public health degree more affordable!
Access this online resource via the 🔗 in our bio!
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Nov 8

Explore our Finance Your Degree database for funding opportunities to make your path to a public health degree more affordable!
Access this online resource via the 🔗 in our bio!
#HPW2021 #thisispublichealth

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Hi everyone! My name is Calli and I am currently a second-year MPH student in the department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. I also work as a ...

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Nov 8

Hi everyone! My name is Calli and I am currently a second-year MPH student in the department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. I also work as a COVID-19 contact tracer for the university, and am most interested in infectious disease epidemiology and health equity. To that end, during my takeover this week, I'll be discussing how we can promote and preserve health equity when it comes to the surveillance, treatment, and research of infectious diseases. #ambassadortakeover

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