Public Health

I am a founding member of the Doctor of Public Health Coalition. Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country or region of the world. Public health also works to limit health disparities. A large part of public health is promoting health care equity, quality and accessibility.

Source: CDC Foundation