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Public Health Perspectives
PHENOM mentors share their expertise, experiences and insight into Public Health Careers!
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 Date Published Author Topic
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August 23, 2022 Laura Blum, MPH Change a Life, Be A Mentor: My Mentorship Experience
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October 7, 2022 Staci Kershner, JD The Role of Law in Public Health
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October 21, 2022 Teresa Huang, MPH, MCHES®, RPCV Peace Corps for Public Health - Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How?
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November 4, 2022 Brandy Benedict, DNP, MN, RN What is Public Health Nursing?
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November 18, 2022 Nola Goodrich-Kresse, BS, MS, MCHES® Are There Benefits to Having Interns?
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December 2, 2022 CDR Molly Rutledge Have you ever thought of working for the U.S. Public Health Service?
7
September 29, 2023 Dr. SM Kadri A Viable Solution to Addressing Climate Change: Solarization
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January 26, 2024 Kate Glendon MPH, CHES® The Role of Health Educators As Life Coaches
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March 1, 2024 Brandy Barnett Holloman, DHEd, MS, CHES® Want to be a Public Health Consultant? Part I
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April 5, 2024 Brandy Barnett Holloman, DHEd, MS, CHES® Want to be a Public Health Consultant? Part II
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October 25, 2024 René Najera. DrPH, MPH, MT Public Health in the Age of Political Polarization
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November 15, 2024 Staci Kershner, JD Implications of the 2024 Supreme Court Decisions on Public Health

Know Thyself

Transferable Skills

What is Public Health Practice?

Occupational Outlook
Gen Alpha
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-generation-alphas-dream-careers-by-gender/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-worlds-fastest-growing-jobs-2025-2030/
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-worlds-fastest-growing-jobs-2025-2030/

Most common jobs, by state
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/each-states-most-common-job-1998-vs-2024/

Worst Degrees
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-20-worst-college-degrees-for-finding-a-job/

Fastest Growing Job Sectors
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-americas-fastest-growing-job-sectors-in-2025/

Average Hourly Wage
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-average-salary-by-state-in-2025/

Occupational Growth
Graphic source: https://usafacts.org/articles/what-are-the-fastest-growing-professions-in-america/

Degrees ROI
Graphic source: Visual Capitalist

Job Growth Outlook
Graphic source: https://www.statista.com/chart/32896/change-in-total-nonfarm-employment-in-the-us-by-industry/

Jobs without 4-year degree

Jobw with 4-year degree
Graphic source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/11/among-young-us-workers-without-a-college-degree-men-and-women-hold-very-different-types-of-jobs/

Fewer Jobs
Graphic source: https://www.statista.com/chart/25518/job-openings-rate-by-industry/ 6/2024
Graphic source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/11/among-young-us-workers-without-a-college-degree-men-and-women-hold-very-different-types-of-jobs/

Jobs MOst in Demand
Graphic source: https://www.statista.com/chart/32236/occupations-with-the-highest-projected-change-in-employment-in-the-us/

Jobs Most in Demand
Graphic source: https://www.statista.com/chart/32236/occupations-with-the-highest-projected-change-in-employment-in-the-us/

Jobs Most at risk
Graphic source: https://www.statista.com/chart/30161/decline-in-employment-levels-in-selected-occupations-by-2031/

Worse College Majors
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/major-worst-finding-a-job/

College debt
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-median-student-debt-for-a-u-s-bachelors-degree/

Fastest Growing Jobs
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-20-fastest-growing-jobs-in-the-next-decade/ Published 9/2021

Trends to Note: What can impact current career skillsets

Education and Income
Graphic source: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2025/09/education-and-income.html

AI Skills
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-top-10-most-wanted-skills-for-ai-jobs/

Job Skills
Graphic source: https://www.intelligent.com/1-in-6-companies-are-hesitant-to-hire-recent-college-graduates/

Employer Beliefs
Graphic source: https://www.intelligent.com/1-in-6-companies-are-hesitant-to-hire-recent-college-graduates/

Graduate hires
Graphic source: https://www.intelligent.com/1-in-6-companies-are-hesitant-to-hire-recent-college-graduates/

Factors to Hire
Graphic source: https://www.intelligent.com/1-in-6-companies-are-hesitant-to-hire-recent-college-graduates/

Coach vs. Mentor
Graphic source: @ScholarshipfPhd

Switching jobs
Graphic source: https://www.statista.com/chart/31032/median-year-over-year-change-in-annual-pay-in-the-us/

AI taking over
Graphic source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3710293/openais-chatgpt-turns-one-year-old-what-it-did-and-didnt-do.html

AI taking over
Graphic source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3710293/openais-chatgpt-turns-one-year-old-what-it-did-and-didnt-do.html

Jobs mentioning AL
Graphic source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3710293/openais-chatgpt-turns-one-year-old-what-it-did-and-didnt-do.html

"Quiet quitting is a term that describes when an employee stops going above and beyond their job duties, but still fulfills their primary responsibilities. It's also known as silent resignation or stealth departure." (https://www.investopedia.com/what-is-quiet-quitting-6743910)
If you are doing this, stop. Employers are on to you. Change your attitude to gratitude that you have a job and put more than 100% into it. Just getting by is not good enough.

Public Health Education

College Majors
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-most-popular-u-s-undergraduate-degrees-2011-2021/#

Professional Competency Frameworks/Models

Competency framework
Graphic source: https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/SAMHSA_Digital_Download/PEP20-03-08-001.pdf

Licensures
Professional Certifications

Lumina Foundation's Chris Mullin proposes the following Credentials Taxonomy

Macrocredentials are degrees and certificates that reflect the completion of a program of study of sufficient depth and duration.

Microcredentials include short-term learning and training and include certificates, badges, and continuing education units as examples.

Maintenance credentials are ones someone must renew or are time-limited in their applicability. Examples include computer skills, teaching certificates, or a medical license.

Source: https://www.luminafoundation.org/news-and-views/i-dug-deep-into-the-history-of-this-countrys-credentialling-frenzy-and-resurfaced-with-six-ways-we-can-reduce-the-chaos/

Internships
  • Become an Associate CDC.gov

    The Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) is a competitive two-year, paid training program for recent college graduates who are interested in a career in public health. PHAP gives recent graduates the opportunity to gain hands-on, real-life experience in the day-to-day operations of public health programs.

  • Pathways for Students and Recent Graduates National Institutes of Health

Scholarships
Public Health Careers Informaion
Public health career samples
Graphic source: https://www.cdc.gov/stem/careers/index.html

Public health work seetings
Graphic source: https://www.cdc.gov/stem/careers/index.html

Public health education careers
Graphic source: https://mphdegree.usc.edu/career-options/public-health-educator/

Job search Resources
Continuing Education Resources
Public Health Accreditation and Infrastructure

PHAB-accredited Health Departments
Graphic source: https://phaboard.org/wp-content/uploads/Accreditation-Activity-Map.pdf

Public Health Practice
Public Health Research Institutions
Professional Public Health Associations
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PHENOM Public Health Careers

PROGRAM SNAPSHOT
November, 2023 - Ever since the Annual Public Health Alumni Mentor Directory was posted on the Net in April 2000, people from all over the world have visited the Web page. As Program Director, I am pleased to see its usefulness extend beyond the university's walls and into cyber-space.

We are now known as - The Public Health Expertise Network of Mentors. These mentors are public health professionals with a degree in Public Health who have volunteered to make themselves available to answer your questions about Public Health Practice over the Net. Each serves one-year terms that follow the academic calendar. Recruiting is all year round, but the deadline for the coming academic year is June 30.

I would like to invite you, whether or not you are a SCSU graduate, to become a Public Health Mentor. If have a degree in public health, and are willing to make yourself available to those who are interested in becoming a public health practitioner, then you can be a mentor! As long as someone can reach you at an e-mail address, you can mentor. Check out the Program Description, and then sign up. You can easily do this using the on-line forms that you can access from this page. If you have any questions, please E-mail Me , and I will get back to you.

Recruitment period: June 1 - June 30 for following academic year! See PHENOM Recruitment Information

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