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How to succeed in your post-MPH career search: A Recent Graduate’s Perspective
Looking for a position during or after completing your MPH degree can be nerve-wracking and overwhelming, especially while simultaneously trying to write a thesis, attend classes, complete homework assignments, work, volunteer, and take care of personal responsibilities- among many other [...]
Public Health Vs. Infection Control (Part 3): 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 and part 2. Part 3 is written by Alice. I completed my MPH at Queen’s University with a specialization in [...]
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 [...]
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