The landscape of public health education and employment, with Senior Director of Data Analytics at Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health Christine Plepys

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Show Notes

In this episode, Sujani sits down with Christine Plepys to talk about the variety of career paths that she’s had and how this has informed her work as senior director of data analytics. In a follow up from episode 34 with Heather Krasna, Christine describes the changing landscape of public health and the research that she’s conducted on the diversity of this workforce. 

You’ll Learn

• Christine’s different employment opportunities that lead her to public Health
• The statistics on different job fields that public health graduates are employed in
• The opportunities available for joint and dual degrees
• The data on the diversity of public health and what makes it such a diverse field
• Institutional resource planning to accommodate larger number of public health applicants
• What makes public health graduates so employable in the academic and corporate world
  
  

Resources

• PH Spot episode with Heather Krasna that this episode follows from: https://phspot.org/public-health-workforce-heather-krasna/
• Research Paper: Dual MD-MPH Degree Students in the United States: Moving the Medical Workforce Toward Population Health
• Research Paper: First-Destination Outcomes for 2015–2018 Public Health Graduates: Focus on Employment 
• Research Paper: Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Academic Public Health: 20-Year Update 
• PH resource where Master of Public Health programs are offered in Canada: phspot.ca/mphcanada
• PH Spot resource where Master of Public Health programs are offered in the US: phspot.ca/mphUSA
• PH Spot resource where Master of Public Health programs are offered online: phspot.ca/mphonline
• PH Spot resource on where Doctor of Public Health programs are offered around the world:  phspot.ca/drph

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