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Five Questions with CSTE’s First Preventive Medicine Fellow: Hariharan Athreya, MD

CSTE

Q: Was there a certain a-ha moment where you became passionate about Public Health as a career? I saw that if I cared about social determinants of health and where people were living and how they were living like I was doing then I would need a public health degree.

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The Pivot with Rotimi Kukoyi

UNC Epidemiology Blog

As a Black male in the South, Ive always been passionate about health equity. Ive realized more recently, though, that I want to improve health equity by being part of major innovation in health financing and care delivery. This approach requires us to make public health reforms financially viable.

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Medicare is experimenting with how it pays for kidney transplants

Association of Health Care Journalists

The American Society of Nephrology , the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network , and consumer advocacy group Families USA offered generally positive comments, with the latter suggesting amendments to promote health equity, data collection and shared decision-making.

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PHAB Names Joneigh Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP, As New President and CEO

PHAB

Joneigh brings a wealth of knowledge, visionary leadership, and a deep commitment to advancing public health. Khaldun served as Michigans Chief Medical Executive and Chief Deputy Director for Health, overseeing five state agencies. The Board is confident in her ability to lead the talented PHAB team into the future.

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Public Health Master’s Degrees in Epidemiology: What Questions to Ask

BU School of Public Health Blog

For me, epi (especially social epi) checked all the boxes—a focus on the social determinants of health (such as poverty and education) as well as the career opportunities in the field. But there’s a lot of space within the public health umbrella.

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The Secret Surveillance Capitalism That Suffuses Medicare

The Health Care Blog

The for-profit mining of consumer data for health purposes is a somewhat paradoxical outgrowth of public health research, which has long stressed the need to address so-called “social determinants of health” (SDOH). SDOH refers to the environment in which people are born, live, learn, work and play.

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The Strength of Our Collective Commitment to Health and Equity

The Network for Public Health Law

How we navigate the post-election landscape will have a lasting impact on democracy, the social determinants of health, and public health authority. The election has highlighted the differences in how people perceive and value our government, its role, and who it serves.