The Future and Vision of Public Health Education
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Shatter. And today we have really a special guest with us. You'll hear from her in a minute. But we're going to be talking about the future and vision of public health and really around the concept of public health education. Good topic for today. We've got a great crew. Always like to give them some high marks and credit. As we do these shows, our researchers are Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sheridan Nygaard. Sheridan also does the marketing for our show and also does some recording. She'll be recording this show, as a matter of fact. Our production manager is Matthew Campbell, who gets all our shows out to you, the listening audience. Co-host for the show with me, as always, is...
Clarence Jones, we have a good time doing these shows. And it's good chatting that we've done over all of these shows. So thank you to you, Clarence. And then, of course, there's Human Partnership, a community health organization, sponsors our shows. They do great work out in the community. I recommend you see, you check out their website at humanpartnership.org. and you can also check us out at healthchatterpodcast.com. All of our research is available on our website, as well as our shows are transcribed as well, so you can read them or listen to them, whatever your preference is. So thank you to all of you, the listening audience, and everybody involved with the show. So today we have... Dr. Pettigrew with us, Melinda Pettigrew, who's the new dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. So welcome, welcome, welcome. It's nice to have you. So she's currently the dean. She started just this last January. Previously, deputy dean at Yale University and an epidemiology professor there as well.
She's published many research publications, especially around respiratory tract infections, etc., recipient of many honors and awards. And I'm sure the selection committee noted those when they selected you as our new dean. So welcome. PhD in epidemiology from Yale. And so she went out there to get her PhD. her doctorate, but she was in the Midwest when she got her undergraduate degree at Grinnell. So welcome back to the Midwest. So thank you for, thanks for being with us. It's great to have you. So, okay. So, you know, to a certain extent, what really drove us to have you on the show, obviously, is our new dean, but also the concept of public health and education, and it really came to the forefront, obviously, when we were dealing with COVID. It was really kind of, okay, how do we communicate? How do we educate it? Et cetera. But for sure, I've always adhered to the fact, and many of us in public health have, that successful public health, oftentimes is invisible to the public, correct? Absolutely.
I mean, it's just like what you don't see, and it makes it really good, you know, like clean water. Guess what? There's a lot that goes into, you know, for instance, like clean water. So we have a lot of things to talk about. Clarence, you got a comment.
I actually got my hand up first. I'm very happy to see you and to meet you. I am a community member, and so I come at this from a community perspective. Why is there such a lack of understanding about public health? I mean, I actually worked in a clinic and you talk about public health thing and it seems like there's such a huge barrier between the biomedical and public health and people don't understand the interconnectionists of them. So why do you think there's such a lack of understanding about public health?
Yeah, that's a huge question. And I think it's one that the field struggles with quite a bit. As Stanton mentioned earlier, You don't see public health when it's functioning well. And we work to prevent disease. So all those things that are prevented that don't get you into the hospital, people don't see them. I also think one of the challenges is that the field is so broad. Public health touches so many different things. And so when you do that, it's a little bit of everything everywhere all at once. And so I think we even as a field have trouble articulating what public health does. I think the pandemic was a little helpful actually in helping the public understand. You started hearing terms like epidemiologists are not flattening the curve.
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