Careers in Public Health Fireside Chat

🧭 🗺️ Feel like you are navigating the wilderness? Grab a S'more and join Tracy Flood for a fireside chat about the changing landscape of public health and social sector jobs in the United States. Explore and discuss different career paths for improving health and well-being in communities. All are welcome to join (students, early-stage, job seekers, career switchers, career restarters, as well as curious career consultants, educators, potential partners, and future employers).

Agenda

• Round of Intros. Connect with others!

  • name, location, sector or field of interest, where you are in your journey, and an icebreaker question

• The Landscape. What jobs are out there?

• exploring public health and social sector job landscape

• cross-reference keywords, lingo, and terminology

• Equipping Yourself. What skills are needed to get the job?

• applying for jobs in 2025: Do Application Tracking Systems change how we list different skills?

• guided questions and discussion about skills, tech, tools, and certificates needed

• open forum for questions and what people are working on

  
  

60 min

Fireside Facilitator

Tracy Flood MD, PhD

President and Co-founder

BroadStreet Institute

Dr. Flood has over a decade experience in community health data, data visualization, and training. After her Pediatric internship, Tracy became a Population Health Fellow at the University of Wisconsin (UW) stationed in Milwaukee. Tracy then worked to establish a new Preventive Medicine Residency Program at UW before becoming the Director of Data for The Wisconsin Obesity Prevention Initiative. In 2020, during the pandemic, Tracy founded the BroadStreet Institute a 501(c)3 non-profit. BroadStreet has hosted over 2,000 learners interested in improving population health. Tracy is passionate about empowering community change, increasing data literacy, and turning data into actions that will have long-term impact.

Let's discover how data heals the world.

Goals & Objectives

Big Picture Goal: Empower those interested in public health as they search for opportunities to improve the world.

Objectives: By the end of the session, attendees will walk away with:

(1) A framework with which to approach the job landscape

(2) Terminology and lingo for the job hunt search

(3) New connections for an expanding network

What Do We Need?

⏰ Time: 1 hour

👥 Team: Tracy Flood facilitates discussion

🧰⚒️ Tools - What we will we need

Interactive session, we recommend being computer-side with the ability to turn on camera and audio in Zoom.

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