Public Health Ambassador Program
Enriching the Public Health Workforce
Public Health Ambassador ProgramThe Public Health Ambassador Program's primary objective is to promote the public health profession and raise awareness of the career benefits and opportunities that come with joining the public health sector. The program aims to inspire and engage students and potential career seekers to join the public health workforce by organizing sessions at high schools and academic institutions.
Become a Public Health AmbassadorPublic health ambassadors are members of the New Hampshire Public Health Association who have over ten years of public health experience or are retired public health veterans. They are the voice of the public health profession. They inspire and educate students and job seekers about the public health profession and its numerous career opportunities and benefits.
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Roles & Responsibilities
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Public Health is Vital to All of Us All of The Time
The phrase “public health” is familiar enough. We hear it on the news, if nowhere else. It came up often when COVID-19 swept across the country. People were getting sick, and we had to know how the disease spread. Public health professionals went to work and helped pull us out of that crisis. But when it comes to what public health is, and how it helps us and our families, quite a few people are in the dark.
The CDC Foundation defines public health as the science of protecting, promoting, and improving the health of people and their communities. It is what you see when you look past the injuries and ailments of individuals at the well-being of whole groups of people. Put simply, whereas healthcare professionals are concerned with one patient at a time, public health has its eye on whole populations.
When the healthcare system registers an uptick in respiratory disease, doctors and nurses treat patients in need, while public health professionals survey the problem at the macro level. They want to know what sort of people are predominantly afflicted, and how an illness spreads across age groups and geographical lines, as well as socioeconomic and racial divides. The public health work is carried out by public health scientists and researchers, epidemiologists, public health microbiologists, health educators, community planners, occupational health and safety professionals, and community health workers, to name a few.
The CDC Foundation defines public health as the science of protecting, promoting, and improving the health of people and their communities. It is what you see when you look past the injuries and ailments of individuals at the well-being of whole groups of people. Put simply, whereas healthcare professionals are concerned with one patient at a time, public health has its eye on whole populations.
When the healthcare system registers an uptick in respiratory disease, doctors and nurses treat patients in need, while public health professionals survey the problem at the macro level. They want to know what sort of people are predominantly afflicted, and how an illness spreads across age groups and geographical lines, as well as socioeconomic and racial divides. The public health work is carried out by public health scientists and researchers, epidemiologists, public health microbiologists, health educators, community planners, occupational health and safety professionals, and community health workers, to name a few.
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Upcoming Scheduled Sessions
Presenter: Rich DiPentima
Presenter: Rich DiPentima
Presenter: TBA
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