Connecting women in public health and global health is essential for addressing the gender pay gap, promoting women's representation in leadership, fostering professional development, advocating for gender equity, and building a more inclusive and supportive work environment. Collaborative efforts among women can lead to positive changes that benefit individuals, organizations, and society as a whole.
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Public health professionals are often called to do the work that they do. They are dedicated to protecting and improving the health of communities. They are often driven by passion and fueled by a desire to make a tangible difference in people's lives. But who are they?
In the U.S., the public health workforce is aligned somewhat closely to the U.S. population in terms of diversity, but a major difference is the representation of women. Women make up the majority of the U.S. public health workforce (79%). From 2005 to 2016, 70-73% of all public health degrees in the U.S. were awarded to women.
How many health organizations do you follow on social media? Why do you follow them? Are they influencing you to make a change in behavior? If so, what are they doing to make you consider making a behavior change in your personal life?
Part of every public health curriculum is a mandatory health communication course, where we learn best practices for communicating with the public and with other stakeholders. But you know what we don’t often learn in school, how to talk to ourselves.
Public health professionals have excelled at raising awareness of critical health and social issues, but translating that awareness into concrete action and change is much more challenging. We want to help bridge this gap with the launch of the Let’s Talk Public Health Communication and Marketing Funnel.
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