Here are some helpful links for career opportunities in public health at the federal level.

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The Association of Health Care Journalists is a an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of health care issues. Its mission is to improve the quality, accuracy and visibility of health care reporting, writing and editing. There are more than 1,000 members of AHCJ. (more…)

Dr. Walter M. Bortz is one of America’s most distinguished scientific experts on aging. After training at Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, he has spent his career at Stanford University, where he holds the position of Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. (more…)

Today I attended an interesting lecture at Jefferson Medical College sponsored by the Department of Health Policy. John O. Agwunobi, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., Senior Vice President, and President, Health and Wellness, Wal-Mart Stores Division, and former Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, gave the 17th Annual Dr. Raymond C. Grandon Lecture, “Bridging the Worlds of Business and Public Health.” (more…)

A master storyteller, internationally recognized author, physician, speaker and healer, Dr. Carl A. Hammerschlag is a Yale-trained psychiatrist who has spent more than twenty years working with Native Americans. (more…)

Dr. Cortis is a renowned health and wellness speaker and bestselling author. (more…)

There are several federal public health resources available online. The following is a list of helpful links for searching information in this area, with links to their websites provided: (more…)

With over 20 years of experience in medical information and business, Dr. Holly Atkinson is editor-in-chief of the consumer newsletter HealthNews, launched 12 years ago by the Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine. (more…)

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Dr. Geiger is Former President and Founding Member, Physicians for Human Rights, the Arthur C. Logan Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine at City University of New York Medical School, and Visiting Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University School of Public Health. He received his MD from Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1958 and trained in internal medicine on the Harvard Service of Boston City Hospital from 1958-64. During this period he also obtained his MPH in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
 

Most of Dr. Geiger’s professional career has been devoted to the problems of health, poverty and human rights.

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