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公共卫生岗位：9年公共卫生传播者培训的反思

PHP最近开始招募第9批学生写作新濠影汇线上赌场研究员。 多年来，该出版物已成为一种可靠的公共资源和教育工具。

男性避孕药具、健康教育漫画、空气污染对运动成绩的影响、聋哑人和听力障碍者的医疗服务可及性，这些都有什么共同之处？ These topics and thousands more like them have been the subject of compelling, original stories published by 公共卫生站 (PHP) over its eight-year history.

Hosted by the 公共卫生学院, the one-of-a-kind online magazine enlists a cohort of graduate student 编写人员 and a selection of 客人的作者 to produce a steady stream of informative and engaging content, designed to target everyone from students and practitioners in the field to journalists, policymakers, and everyday people.

“Since its inception, 公共卫生站 has lived at the intersection of data and narrative, telling the story of health through expert voices, cutting-edge science, and a social justice focus,” says Dean 桑德罗盔状突起物, who 推出了 PHP in 2016 with the late 大卫。琼斯, professor of health, law and policy and PHP’s inaugural editor-in-chief. Jones 设想 PHP would offer an experience akin to a good dinner party where readers could get acquainted with fascinating individuals and ideas, and engage in stimulating, meaningful discussions. 从那以后，PHP吸引了成千上万的人。

While public health occasionally captures the attention of the mainstream media—usually in times of crisis, PHP managing editor 马洛里Bersi says, “PHP strives to fuel the national conversation on public health year-round.”

Five days a week, PHP posts articles to its anchor website publichealthpost.org. Each Friday, the articles are neatly packaged into an email newsletter called the “PHP周五综述” and sent to PHP’s approximately 14,000 subscribers in 50 states and more than 100 countries. Thousands more interact with PHP on Instagram, LinkedIn, and via PHPod, a podcast series PHP introduced in 2020 to share conversations between fellows and public health influencers about common but at times uncomfortable public health topics such as 身体形象, 减少危害, and 白人至上.

Through the years, PHP has also inspired three books: 痛苦：关于公众健康的不舒服的谈话, 健康图景, and the forthcoming 转折点：对流行病的反思. Each evolved from a collection of essays and “databytes” first published in PHP newsletters by Galea and 迈克尔•斯坦, chair and professor of health law, policy and management and PHP executive editor.

“我们正在努力向人们解释健康，他们比以往任何时候都更清楚我们如何构成和管理我们的世界，影响我们的生活方式和生活质量，”PHP工作的Stein说。 “我们希望美国每一个新的公共卫生专业学生都能阅读PHP，并知道他们在正确的地方，做正确的工作。”

为了以简洁易懂的方式传达社会、经济和文化力量塑造健康的方式，PHP制作了五种类型的文章： 观点 show personal perspectives and reflections on public health issues, 新濠影汇线上赌场研究 covers the latest population health findings and their implications, 新闻 details current events in the field, 配置文件 spotlight practitioners and other people doing the work, and Databytes—a PHP invention—are short pieces that call attention to a chart, graph, map, or other visual depiction of data to tell a powerful yet accessible story.

“尽管有很多新的、非常重要的公共卫生新濠影汇线上赌场研究，但公众，即使是卫生领域的人，也很难获得并理解所有这些新濠影汇线上赌场研究。 Finding, deciphering, and bringing to light pertinent health research with 公共卫生站 is both crucial and incredibly gratifying,” says 2023-2024 PHP fellow 卡洛琳Dignard. Examples of her work for PHP include a databyte on 毒素 in receipt paper, and research pieces on 脑损伤 from ice hockey fights and the 心理健康 co-benefits of SNAP, a federal nutrition assistance program.

公共卫生站 迪纳尔说，这是她选择来SPH的原因之一。 “我看到我用PHP开发的技能是我在职业生涯中担任的任何角色的核心。 我现在明白了清晰、简洁和深思熟虑的写作的重要性，我有效地传达复杂想法的信心也飙升了。”

This confidence is a source of pride for PHP associate editor 詹妮弗胡子, who acknowledges the intensive apprenticeship presents students with a formidable challenge. 在为期一年的学习期间，PHP新濠影汇线上赌场研究员需要提出想法，提交大约40篇文章以获得反馈，并且在许多情况下需要进行多轮修改。

“With each article they are learning to balance inspiration with attention to detail, and confidence that they have something important to say with humble acceptance that any draft can always be improved,” says Beard, who on top of teaching writing in her courses as clinical associate professor of global health, developed and leads the 公共卫生写作计划, a resource providing peer writing support and other educational writing tools for students, faculty, and staff. “看着每个人通过不断的刻意练习来发展和磨练他们的写作过程，总是能激励我。”

通过定期的写作研讨会、编辑会议和个人指导，Beard、Stein和Bersi支持PHP新濠影汇线上赌场研究员建立有效的写作习惯，探索他们感兴趣的东西，并获得准确而合乎道德地传播科学的技能。 由于认识到PHP方法的价值，其他大学和学院的教授已经采用PHP的模式向本科生教授公共卫生写作的艺术。 At the annual meeting of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health in 2022, 香农安德森, an associate professor of sociology and coordinator of the Public Health Studies program at Roanoke College, shared her PHP-inspired curriculum, saying, “PHP is taking complex research and making it acceptable to a lay audience. 如果我们不能在公共卫生写作中做到这一点，那么我们就不是在做公共卫生。”

迄今为止，已有30名学生成为PHP新濠影汇线上赌场研究员。 毕业后，学员们在政府、学术界、生物技术、医疗保健和非营利组织从事各种各样的公共卫生事业。 许多人继续写作。

“When I heard about PHP, I knew it was an opportunity to turn my passion into practice,” says Rubina Veerakone, a 2021­-2022 Fellow who translates biomedical research for lay audiences at MIT. “我们的PHP团队真的是天衣无缝。 The fellows soaked up each other’s unique views, and we really wanted to make everyone a better science communicator.”

芭芭拉埃斯皮诺萨巴雷拉, a 2022-2023 Fellow, used her time at PHP to nurture her passion for environmental justice, publishing pieces about the benefits of 都市农业 and dangers of 水力压裂. Realizing her writing had never been better than after completing her fellowship, she seized the moment to apply for a prestigious 普利策中心报道奖学金. 今年春天，她将回到厄瓜多尔科托帕西地区的家中，报道居住在活火山附近的人们如何为未来的火山爆发做准备。 埃斯皮诺萨·巴雷拉（Espinosa Barrera）还在大波士顿地区的非营利组织“绿色之根”（GreenRoots）全职工作，作为他们的环境正义和健康公平组织者，继续她的倡导遗产。

应用程序 2025-2026 PHP奖学金开放至2024年9月30日，鼓励感兴趣的学生申请，无论他们之前是否有写作经验。 PHP渴望为对话带来充满激情和想象力的新声音。

“在PHP中，我们发现了好奇心、学术严谨、对弱势群体的关注，以及对新知识视野的不懈追求，这些都是大卫·琼斯所做的一切的一部分，”加利亚说。 “看到PHP作为我们学校的旗舰项目和一位非常怀念的同事的遗产的核心而成长和繁荣，我感到很高兴。”