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Hot Off The Press: Advancing Accessibility to Improve Civic Health Equity

Hot off the press!

"We encourage public health professionals to look beyond compliance to apply a human rights lens to accessibility and civic health equity work."

I'm excited to share a new publication in the journal Health Promotion Practice (HPP), co-authored with Nailah Henry, MPH, CCRC, titled "Advancing Accessibility to Improve Civic Health Equity."

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Hot Off The Press: Emerging Priorities in Public Health Education and Training 2025

I’m happy to share my next installment of “Hot Off The Press”, a blog feature where I share emerging research, publications, and standards that are relevant to making effective and accessible public health courses.

This month, I am highlighting a new article from the journal Pedagogy in Health Promotion called “Is Public Health Education and Training Adequately Responding (or Not) to Emerging Priorities?” (Kemper Seeley, Robinson, Severinsen, and Coombe, 2024).

I discuss the highlights and my key takeaways.

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Hot Off The Press: Neurodiversity and Cognitive Load in Online Learning

I’m happy to share my next installment of “Hot Off The Press”, a blog feature where I share emerging research, publications, standards (etc.) that are relevant to making awesome public health courses.

This month I’m highlighting a new article from the journal PLOS One called “Neurodiversity and Cognitive Load in Online Learning: A Focus Group Study” (Le Cunff, Giampietro, and Dommett, 2024).

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Hot Off The Press: Ensuring Public Health Course Quality Across Multiple Formats

I’m starting a new feature here on the blog called “Hot Off The Press”, where I share emerging research, publications, standards (etc.) that are relevant to making awesome public health courses.

This month I’m highlighting a new article from the journal Pedagogy in Health Promotion called “Maintaining Course Quality and Integrity Across Multiple Modalities” (Kulak & Forder, 2023).

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