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Twelve Warnings and a Promise: A Rensaku of U.S. Public Health in 2025 - Love Letter #11
Poetry while science burns
Jan 12
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Dr. Katie Schenk
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Looking Ahead to 2026: Carrying the Public Health Workforce Forward
We Don’t Need Life Hacks. We Need a Reckoning.
Jan 5
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Dr. Katie Schenk
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2025 Wrapped: A Year of Disruption for the Public Health Workforce
Or, how a workforce in free fall built community anyway.
Dec 22, 2025
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Dr. Katie Schenk
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When the Kitchen’s Closed: What’s on the Menu for the Public Health Workforce?
Public health education is still selling a promise of opportunity while the job market collapses beneath it, leaving students trained, indebted, and…
Dec 15, 2025
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Dr. Katie Schenk
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Everything is Public Health: When Public Health Jobs Become Collateral Damage - Voices #23
An infectious disease specialist cut from a large City health department reflects on the systemic invisibility of public health and the urgent need for…
Dec 8, 2025
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Dr. Katie Schenk
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Lifting the Paywall: Limited-time offer!
This week, in a special edition of The Public Health Workforce is Not OK newsletter, I am announcing a limited-time opportunity to celebrate the…
Nov 24, 2025
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Dr. Katie Schenk
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From Federal Employee to School Teacher: Lessons in Resilience and Reinvention - Voices #22
A former NIH science communicator reflects on finding purpose after choosing to leave federal service during a period of widespread layoffs, discovering…
Nov 17, 2025
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Dr. Katie Schenk
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Yasmin Mariam Kloth
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When the Door Slams Anyway: A tale of frustration from an early-career public health professional who has done all the right things - Voices…
An early-career public health professional asks what happens when a generation trained for public health finds the doors shut.
Nov 10, 2025
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Dr. Katie Schenk
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Annika Peterson
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