by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 20, 2011 | 0 All, Networking
Many people are shy about asking for help. As you develop your career, networking is not a bad word or something to avoid. Even if you are not looking for a job in this moment, you should be building your professional network. The folks in your network are potential...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 19, 2011 | 0 All, About Public Health, Examples of Public Health
If your eyes glaze over when someone mentions research or epidemiology, you are not alone. Many people do not even know what those terms mean or represent. Here is one way to think about it. Do you know someone who has cancer, has recovered from cancer or died from...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 18, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Yesterday, the CDC released a report describing where in the U.S. Americans engage in the least amount of leisure time physical activity. They also linked the same regions, in the South and Appalachia, to relatively high rates of diabetes and obesity. This CDC report...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 16, 2011 | 0 All, About Public Health, Examples of Public Health
In case you haven’t noticed, one of my goals for this resource is to not focus only on one or two public health fields. To showcase the breadth and depth of public health, I am rotating my posts across seven or eight key disciplines. Today’s discipline is...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 15, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Tonight I joined the North Carolina State University’s Minority Association of Pre-Health Students for a discussion of public health. We had a great time…ok, I can only speak for myself. I had a great time answering their questions, sharing my pathways...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 14, 2011 | 0 All, About Public Health, Examples of Public Health
Yes, the order is correct. Public health separate from medical professions is at least 100 years old…give or take. As I was watching and listening to the GRAMMY Awards show last night, I was struck by a similarity to public health. Public health as a concept...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 11, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health, Professionals
I enjoy popular culture with the best of them, including current music, movies, books, TV shows, dance, etc. I can chat about this season of Fringe and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo AND debate whether or not genetics trumps culture as a determinant of health...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 10, 2011 | 0 All, Careers
Ok, an assistant dean of students affairs…still, a real dean 🙂 I started this service to help students of all ages find out about public health careers and how to pursue them. I wish there was a service like this when I was in high school. Very few of my high...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 9, 2011 | 0 All, About Public Health, Careers, Degrees, Univerities/Schools/Programs
If I remember correctly (and it has been awhile), this morning on the Today Show (yes, the Today Show), First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged people looking for jobs to find industries that are growing and get training in those fields. This could be at a local...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Feb 8, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
&A You might think that clinical trials are only supported by clinicians. Wrong! Some biostatisticians focus on the methods required to make sure that these trials provide the best possible measurements and comparisons:http://tinyurl.com/4c2ey9u. These methods...
