Launching the public health book reviews blog series, with Tasha McAbey

03/03/21 • 26 min

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Show Notes
In today’s episode, Sujani sits down with a fellow public health professional, Tasha McAbey, to announce the collaboration on a new series for the PH SPOT blog! Sujani met Tasha on Instagram through her page @Public.Health.Bookmark where she shares reviews on public health books she’s read. Knowing that the PH SPOT community would love this, Sujani and Tasha are launching monthly public health reviews on the blog! Before the launch of this series next week, Sujani sits down with Tasha to get to know her better and to let you know what you can expect in this series.
You’ll Learn

Get to know Tasha: her public health journey, her role at Boston Children’s Hospital as a professional medical illustrator/animator, and her interest in books (her love language is book recommendations!)
What got Tasha into reading so many public health books; and how she reads any book with a public health lens, thinking about how public health shapes the characters and the events
Reading!
- How reading reminds yourself why you are interested in public health
- How when course readings and writing assignments became hard to get through, reading kept Tasha’s energy level up!
Tasha and PH SPOT’s collaboration for the book reviews – what to expect!
- These book reviews will serve as an inspiration for those in school and for professionals in public health
- To highlight important public health topic areas; and if nothing is being done in these areas, how we hope these reviews encourage the PH SPOT community to take action
- To provide insights beyond what one can look up online – commenting on the writing format and style for example, and going beyond summary and plot points
- Suggested further readings to dive deeper into the subject matter; will be sharing other mediums (not just readings), such as videos and podcast episodes
- How to get in touch with Tasha and provide book recommendations

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Tell us what you thought of this episode - send us a text!

Get to know Tasha: her public health journey, her role at Boston Children’s Hospital as a professional medical illustrator/animator, and her interest in books (her love language is book recommendations!)
What got Tasha into reading so many public health books; and how she reads any book with a public health lens, thinking about how public health shapes the characters and the events
Reading!
- How reading reminds yourself why you are interested in public health
- How when course readings and writing assignments became hard to get through, reading kept Tasha’s energy level up!
Tasha and PH SPOT’s collaboration for the book reviews – what to expect!
- These book reviews will serve as an inspiration for those in school and for professionals in public health
- To highlight important public health topic areas; and if nothing is being done in these areas, how we hope these reviews encourage the PH SPOT community to take action
- To provide insights beyond what one can look up online – commenting on the writing format and style for example, and going beyond summary and plot points
- Suggested further readings to dive deeper into the subject matter; will be sharing other mediums (not just readings), such as videos and podcast episodes
- How to get in touch with Tasha and provide book recommendations

Support the show

Join The Public Health Career Club: A global membership community where public health professionals connect, learn, and support each other in building meaningful and impactful careers.

Go from feeling confused, alone and overwhelmed, to feeling confident and in control of your life and career!

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Quick career tips: Standing out during student job interviews

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Show Notes

We are adding a series of a new type of episode on the PH SPOTlight podcast, titled QUICK CAREER TIPS. These episodes will be short, typically ranging between 5-10 minutes and will spotlight a tip for public health professionals.

Today’s career tip spotlight is on student job interviews and how to stand out during these sessions.

Recently, Sujani has been chatting with many students and new graduates about finding summer jobs, and while reflecting on these conversations she realized that there were students who really stood out more than others. She realized that the main thing that they did really well was that they were super confident and articulated well what they wanted from the experience, even if they still hadn’t figured out the specific direction of their public health career just yet. In this episode, she shares three tips to achieve this.

Resources

Resources for students:
- Infographics 101: How to design public health infographics with software you know and use.
- Complete list of tools and resources on PH SPOT

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Dentistry, public health, and entrepreneurship, with Daniel Faber

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Sujani sits down with Daniel Faber to talk about his public health journey. Dr. Daniel Faber started his professional career as a dentist where he developed as a clinician and entrepreneur. He started his dental practice from scratch, where he learned skills in business, marketing, branding and a focus on effective patient communication which has helped scale into other types of ventures. And 10 years into his practice, he felt this desire to do more, and that’s when he pivoted into public health pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Health at Yale University. Daniel speaks about the journey he’s taken, from dentistry to public health, and his passion for entrepreneurship.

You’ll Learn

How Daniel became interested in dentistry, and the entrepreneurial spark he has always had
About being a dentist, and what that role entailed: an individualistic profession that allows you to build relationships with patients
What pushed Daniel to explore public health, including the frustrations of not being able to prevent disease/problems; how his pivot into public health came from a desire to evolve his career
The decision to pursue a Master of Public Health degree, and how it felt like a natural evolution for his career
Why he chose to pursue a Master of Public Health (MPH) at Yale University and a bit about the MPH program there
With his global health concentration, dentistry background and entrepreneurial interest where he hopes to go with this career
His passion and interest in entrepreneurship, including a discussion on social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship
Using technology to improve access to care to underserved populations
About his dream job: to create something

Resources

Yale School of Public Health
- Social Entrepreneurship – Teresa Chahine
More PH SPOT content on entrepreneurship:
Infographics 101: How to design public health infographics with software you know and use.

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Public Health SPOTlight Podcast - Launching the public health book reviews blog series, with Tasha McAbey

Transcript

Tasha00:00:00.000

It definitely how it was for me, I think that definitely drew me into the field and drew me into that focus. So I think that, that reading can really help you find, you know, that focus, you're looking for that niche problem you're looking to fix. And you might read it and think, wow, like I have a place in helping this. And so I encourage everyone to pick up these books, and see how you can play rolling.

Sujani00:00:21.000