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Public Health Vs. Infection Control (Part 2): Applying Public Health Sciences to Hospital Infection Control
This is a 3-part series written by Madison Moon and Alice Silva, who are both Infection Control Practitioners - read part 1 here. Part 2 is written by Madison. I discovered infection control while focusing my MPH studies on biostatistics with the [...]
Public Health Vs. Infection Control (Part 1)
This is a 3-part series written by Madison Moon and Alice Silva, who are both Infection Control Practitioners. Healthcare Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) doesn’t seem to get a lot of attention when it comes to career possibilities that public health students are [...]
So, you want to study public health, eh? Tips for applying to an MPH program
Written by: Laura N. Anderson Public health is a great field with many rewarding career opportunities and many fantastic educational programs in Canada. As a result, the MPH programs in Canada are highly competitive with admission success rates of <10% [...]
How my sand collection led to my career (no, not in geology): an environmental health journey
I’ve always loved sand. With each new beach I visited, my meticulously labeled, categorized, and dated sand collection continued to grow until it was too heavy to lift. When I arrived at Harvard as an undergrad, it was this love [...]
Learning from your own experiences
Working in Public Health is full of opportunities to touch many lives. While it is most important to have sound technical knowledge on the subject that you are working in, it is equally essential to reflect back upon your past [...]
New beginnings
When I chose to pursue a master’s, I needed a program that would allow me to study while working full-time. Lakehead University’s Master of Public Health offers this flexibility. Studying and working full-time required a lot of sacrifices such as [...]
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THE WISDOM OF WHORES
by Elizabeth Pisani
This controversial book addresses how sex and drugs have turned the global epidemic of HIV into a billion-dollar-a-year industry. Epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani takes a no-holdsbarred approach to finding out exactly why 40 million people are living with HIV and 28 million have already died of AIDS when we have the knowledge, the money, and the means to wipe out the disease in 90 percent of the world. Get a copy on Amazon.
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