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What Is a Global Health Professional?

Tulane Public Health Blog

While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. Such a response is also essential for creating a more equitable global health community.

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Crafting a career in Public Health: tales of serendipity and success, with Christie VanHorne

Public Health Blog

This week, our guest Christie VanHorne shares her career trajectory into public health from a background in history and involvement in humanitarian efforts.

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Funding Community Health Workers

Exploring Health

Underutilized and Undervalued: Community Health Workers Are the Way Forward in Global Health Crises Community health workers reduce healthcare inequities around the world. While international health rights guarantee the right to health, this is not the lived reality for these populations. There are about 3.8

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PHPCG: Transforming Public Health on a Global Scale

Public Health Blog

I am Dr. Ridima Kamal, the first-generation Public Health Professional from India. I am a vibrant, enthusiastic, and passionate individual who found my true calling as I embarked into the vast field of public health. It’s been a while since I commenced on my magical journey in public health, and the learning never stops.

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Ten Low-Cost Interventions to Provide Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

BMJ Global Health

Peer Counseling and School-Based Programs Leveraging the power of shared experience, peer counselors can provide empathetic listening, guidance, and encouragement, making mental health care more relatable and less stigmatized.

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From a just-graduated dentist to an aspiring public health professional.

Public Health Blog

It was a Monday in a government dental hospital in Hyderabad; patients were eagerly waiting outside for their turn to come. The OP has just begun. I quickly prep myself in my dental chair, ready to examine patients.

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Controlling and Preventing Emerging Bacterial Zoonoses in Nigeria

Public Health Blog

They tend to re-emerge, posing significant challenges to public health. Bacterial zoonoses are infectious diseases caused by bacteria that can be transmitted from animals to humans. Despite the transmission of these diseases within the… Source