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The Things We Should Not Need: Navigating Career and Cancer From Within a Fractured System - Voices #28
A former CDC epidemiologist exposes the human cost of brittle public systems and shows what is lost when risk is transferred from institutions to…
Feb 16
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From Survival to Systems Change: How Lived Experience Strengthens Science - Voices #27
A maternal health researcher weaves her lived experience with her public health research to show how persistence and evidence-based advocacy can expose…
Feb 9
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Elizabeth Watson, MPH
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Long Way through the Maze: A Farewell to CDC - Voices #26
A leader from CDC reflects on leaving the agency amid political erosion, collective trauma, and a workforce forced to navigate uncertainty and moral…
Feb 2
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When the System Fails Its Protectors: An Anonymous Account of Neglect in Public Health - Voices #25
A former public health professional reveals how systemic neglect, toxic workplace culture, and disregard for regulations can drive skilled professionals…
Jan 26
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Finding the Red Line: Another Resignation Letter from CDC - Voices #24
A public health officer with CDC and USPHS explains why she resigned rather than enforce immigration policies she believes violate fundamental…
Jan 19
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Twelve Warnings and a Promise: A Rensaku of U.S. Public Health in 2025 - Love Letter #11
Poetry while science burns
Jan 12
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Looking Ahead to 2026: Carrying the Public Health Workforce Forward
We Don’t Need Life Hacks. We Need a Reckoning.
Jan 5
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2025 Wrapped: A Year of Disruption for the Public Health Workforce
Or, how a workforce in free fall built community anyway.
Dec 22, 2025
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