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July 2026

🌻Beyond Individual Resilience: a resource for Summer Break
What if the problem is not that the public health workforce lacks resilience?
 • Dr. Katie Schenk
The Science of What Ifs: On Moral Injury and the Cost of Prevention
A public health professional traces the lingering moral injury shaped by preventable harm, institutional betrayal, and the erosion of trust.
 • Dr. Katie Schenk
When Work Is Interrupted: Finding Purpose Beyond a Title
A candid reflection from a former senior leader at CDC on navigating professional transition, the tension between loyalty and integrity, and the values…
 • Dr. Katie Schenk
Independence, Interdependence, and Why Our Story Still Matters
A reflection on 250 years of US independence through a public health lens
 • Dr. Katie Schenk

June 2026

If you are laid off tomorrow: a practical and soulful guide
How to reclaim your rest and strength after a layoff or RIF to build the life you actually want
 • Dr. Katie Schenk
The Retirement Party I Never Had - Reflections on Loss and Identity from a Global Health Professional
A global health professional reflects on the grief and moral injury of losing a career path, watching institutions dismantled, and finding a new path…
 • Dr. Katie Schenk and Rachel Cintron
The Infrastructure of Exclusion in Public Health: Everything is Accessibility
An experienced public health professional reckons with disability, exclusion, and the workers who pay the price when disability is treated as an…
 • Dr. Katie Schenk
It Has Been Zero Days Since Someone Cried in My Office (and one of those someones was me)
A public health professional traces the lingering moral injury shaped by preventable harm, institutional betrayal, and the erosion of trust.
 • Dr. Katie Schenk and Lisa Brodsky
It’s All About the People: Leadership in Public Health
A former senior leader at CDC reflects on leadership and rebuilding public health
 • Dr. Katie Schenk

May 2026

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