{"id":2207,"date":"2019-11-15T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2019-11-15T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T14:34:52","slug":"careers-in-public-health-panel-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/careers-in-public-health-panel-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers in Public Health Panel Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2019\/11\/PHP-email-banner-01.png\" alt=\"Careers in Public Health Panel, food and brain icons\" class=\"wp-image-2208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2019\/11\/PHP-email-banner-01.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2019\/11\/PHP-email-banner-01-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2019\/11\/PHP-email-banner-01-100x33.png 100w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2019\/11\/PHP-email-banner-01-150x50.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2019\/11\/PHP-email-banner-01-200x67.png 200w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2019\/11\/PHP-email-banner-01-450x150.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panelist Introductions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Daniel Morgan, BA: <\/strong>Zoning Administrator\/Public Health Officer for Charlotte, recent graduate of UVM<\/li><li><strong>Stephanie Busch, BS A-EMT<\/strong>: Injury Prevention Manager at State of VT Dept of Health working in emergency preparedness, injury prevention, and EMS<\/li><li><strong>Jillian Leikauskas, MPH<\/strong>: Substance Abuse Program Evaluator at VT Dept of Health, alcohol and drug abuse program evaluator and grant manager<\/li><li><strong>Jenney Samuelson, MS<\/strong>: Deputy Commissioner at Dept of VT Health, working with Medicaid, health reform, and the intersect between value-based payments and population health<\/li><li><strong>Sally Kerschner, RN MSN<\/strong>: President of the Vermont Public Health Association, Vermont Department of Health nurse working in maternal and child health<\/li><li><strong>Jan Carney, MD MPH<\/strong>: Associate Dean for Public Health, UVM College of Medicine, teaching public health and policy, previous health commissioner of Vermont<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How did you come across and find your passion in the field of\npublic health?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daniel<\/strong>: Healthcare is a\npublic right and a human right and I think that\u2019s really what got me\ninterested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stephanie<\/strong>: My undergraduate degree was\nin biology, chemistry, and anthropology. For me, those circles didn\u2019t really\nfit my world model and public health is the Venn diagram for those components\nbut also how our environment and our culture all impact our life and our\nhealth. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jillian<\/strong>: I started out at UVM as an undergrad in medical laboratory science working with bacteria. When I graduated I became a microbiologist at the health department state lab and then I wanted to find out a little bit more about the people behind the bacteria and why they were sending in their specimens, so while I was working I started working on my MPH, I became an infectious disease epidemiologist at the department and then discovered a real love of data through that and the data that we use in infectious disease is really about solving outbreaks and doing surveillance and more descriptive data monitoring. I then moved on to doing program evaluation which is specifically evaluating a program and seeing if it is working or impacting the people that it is meant to serve \u2013 it\u2019s a little bit more applied, which is why I like it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jenney<\/strong>: I went to\nundergraduate here at UVM and after a few years I joined the nutritional\nscience program with the goal of becoming a dietician. As I graduated from here\nand began entering my dietetic internship program I went out to Illinois and\nthere when I first started in graduate school. I started working in a community\neducation program which was a public health program at the university and\ndually went into the nutrition program. I looked at the public health classes\nand started enrolling because they were the most fascinating and interesting\nbetween epidemiology and death education and kind of the comprehensive roles of\npublic health. &nbsp;From graduate school, I\nwent into college student health and then ended up going into a wellness\nprogram in long-term care at a continuing care facility. While I was there, I\nwas really working on changing the systems. I came back to VT and began working\non how we can change the process of the socio-ecological model of how care is\nprovided, how we do prevention in communities, and I really found my passion in\ndoing that kind of system-level changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sally<\/strong>: I\u2019m a nurse and I\nwent to the University of Delaware many years ago and I kind of liked working\nin the hospital but I didn\u2019t know that I didn\u2019t love it until I did my community\nhealth work in Wilmington. We did a full semester of public health nursing in\nlower-income areas in Wilmington, Delaware and once I started tramping the\nstreets I realized that\u2019s what I really wanted to do. I think we all in public\nhealth feel the direct connection to the public and to the community and that\u2019s\nwhat we\u2019re trying to do here \u2013 we are trying to serve and help those with\neconomic, social, and health inequities. I then got my masters at UVM in\ncommunity health nursing, which is no longer offered here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jan<\/strong>: I\u2019m trained as a physician, so I got my MD and did my residency in internal medicine so I\u2019m an internist \u2013 doctor for adults \u2013 and then I took a course, and I thought oh this is cool science and practice of how you prevent disease. All the things I was taking care of in individual patients &#8211; heart disease, cancer, diabetes, for example \u2013 there was a science of how you could prevent some of that and that was a great feeling for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What do you think is the most pressing public health issue faced\nin Vermont today?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Sally<\/strong>: Climate change<\/li><li><strong>Jillian<\/strong>: Housing<\/li><li><strong>Jenney<\/strong>: Socioeconomic inequity<\/li><li><strong>Jan<\/strong>: Chronic conditions <\/li><li><strong>Stephanie<\/strong>: I\u2019m not gonna argue with equity and housing and all of that. <\/li><li><strong>Daniel<\/strong>: Basic access, gun control, venereal disease at the college level <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important Organizations\/Further Resources <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>American Public Health Association<\/li><li>Vermont Public Health Association (internship opportunities)<\/li><li>United Way of Northwest VT and Howard Mental Health (volunteer opportunities)<\/li><li>AmeriCorps Vista<\/li><li>Global health: NGOs, United Nations<\/li><li>CSTE: Council of State Territorial Epidemiologists (fellowship opportunity)<\/li><li>Internships \u2013 example: office of the chief medical examiner with Dr. Shapiro<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panelist Introductions Daniel Morgan, BA: Zoning Administrator\/Public Health Officer for Charlotte, recent graduate of UVM Stephanie Busch, BS A-EMT: Injury Prevention Manager at State of VT Dept of Health working in emergency preparedness, injury prevention, and EMS Jillian Leikauskas, MPH: Substance Abuse Program Evaluator at VT Dept of Health, alcohol and drug abuse program evaluator &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/careers-in-public-health-panel-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Careers in Public Health Panel Recap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"career","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/author\/career\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}