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In this episode of The Editor's Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with one of the editors of The Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health, a guide for researchers, community activists, and advocates of maternal health offering practical tools and strategies to improve inequities in maternal health. This third edition aims to describe the need and opportunities for improving maternal health through multi-sector collaborations. It highlights examples of effective cross-sector partnerships that are making real improvements in health outcomes for maternal health populations and offers practical tools and strategies for practitioners working in this space.

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, members of the APHA Health Administration Section and the APHA Human Rights Forum, Drs. Mirna Amaya and Becky Pearson, speak to Drs. Faye Taxman and Niloofar Ramezani, about the macrofactors that influence local jail populations.

In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with author Dr. Tim McCall about a new study published in a special issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice highlighting the findings of the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey 2021. “The Role of Harassment in the Mental Well-being of Local Public Health Professionals and Its Relationship with an Intent to Leave Their Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic" underscores the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on the public health workforce and the urgent need to reduce turnover and build a resilient workforce prepared for future emergencies.

Read the article here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2023&issue=01001&article=00009&type=Fulltext

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, two of the authors of a new case study in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice relate how the Jefferson County Health Department in Alabama navigated the challenges of mitigating COVID-19 during the early stages of the pandemic.

Read "Exploring the Preliminary Steps of One County Health Department to Manage the COVID-19 Pandemic" here: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2022/11000/Exploring_the_Preliminary_Steps_of_One_County.12.aspx

In this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Dr. Lloyd Novick speaks with Dr. James Tesoriero and Rachel Newport, two authors of a new article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice who describe an intervention shown to increase prescription fills for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a key tool in state and national efforts to end AIDS as an epidemic. Importantly, they found that the benefits of the intervention were realized across sex, region, and racial and ethnic subgroups and that it should be easily replicable across jurisdictions. Read their article in JPHMP: https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2022/09000/Assessing_the_Impact_of_a_PrEP_Aware_Week_Campaign.6.aspx

Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, MPH, is a faculty member, researcher, and critical public health scholar at Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University. He is the Director of Climate & Health Equity Practice Fellowship, an international fellowship focused on training the next generation of climate medicine leaders in the Global South. He also is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholar fellow. Currently, he is based at Harvard Divinity School, exploring the intersection of religion and public health policies, especially as those relate to climate change.