Are we the Resistance now?
Emergency support edition for the public health workforce
Never has my newsletter title been more appropriate:
The Public Health Workforce is Not OK
Emergency support edition
I’m briefly coming back from hiatus with a special emergency support edition of this newsletter. While Season 4 remains under development, the current moment calls for something more.
At this time of uncertainty for the public health workforce, let’s remember our commitment to science and evidence and data. We know that validating emotions and baggage has a place too, but we need to be able to identify them and distinguish opinion from fact.
Let’s recommit to kindness and mutual support for the public health workforce and beyond. If leaders are trying to sow divisions among us, the best we can do is to respond with empathy, and by strengthening, connecting, and lifting up one another.
Right now, the best I can offer my fellow public health professionals is a place to gather and reflect and share and vent and organize and ask questions and offer support to one another. We’re going to need that now more than ever.
So I suggest that you do the any (or all) of the following:
Subscribe to this newsletter (and catch up on the archives) to find support and resources for public health professionals.
Check in on your friends and colleagues who work in public health and find out how they are doing. Share this newsletter with them.
Come on over to LinkedIn and join us in the Public Health Connections Lounge.
Participate in the chat threads in the Lounge for supportive conversation and community building among public health professionals.
After all, the sentence that I repeat the most over here is: YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
(Go on, search for it in the archive!)
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