Episode 33: Understanding Public Health Workforce Needs with Dr. Katie Schenk

What was it like being an epidemiologist and teaching epi at the start of the COVID pandemic?

In this episode, we speak to Dr. Katie Schenk, epidemiologist and public health professional from the UK who shares her public health experiences of working in epidemiological fieldwork in Africa and here within the United States. Katie also shares her insights and experiences of what is happening in the public health workforce, challenges in finding employment, what the needs currently are, what is said and unsaid in public health, the insular culture of public health work, and where the future of the public health field appears to be going.

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Links shared by Dr. Katie Schenk:

Read my regular column The Public Health Workforce is not OK https://jphmpdirect.com/the-public-health-workforce-is-not-okay-lessons-from-the-public-health-frontline/ 

Our recent article about the public health workforce in Health Affairs Forefront https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/we-public-health-workforce 

My book Ethical Approaches to Gathering Information from Children and Adolescents in International Settings: Guidelines and Resources is available in full for free download at https://knowledgecommons.popcouncil.org/departments_sbsr-hiv/316/ 

Schenk, K. D., & Williamson, J. (2005). Ethical Approaches to Gathering Information from Children and Adolescents in International Settings: Guidelines and Resources. USAID, Population Council, Family Health International.

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