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Disappearing Trick: What Happens When A Career in Public Service Ends Before You’re Ready (opens the original)
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We continue our series of 📢Voices from the Field: Meeting This Moment in Public Health in which we lift the voices of public health professionals reflecting on the realities we’re facing today - and the lessons learned across the arc of their careers.What happens when a career built around public service disappears overnight? In this deeply personal account, former CDC employee Jason A. Cecil reflects on the loss of his work, identity, and sense of purpose, and what it means to believe in public
I Thought the CDC Shooting Was Rock Bottom. We're Still Sinking. (opens the original)
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We continue our series of 📢Voices From the Field with a heartfelt entry from a current CDC employee reflecting on more than a year of escalating public health threats, workforce losses, and institutional erosion.A year ago, a gunman opened fire at CDC, killing a police officer and leaving bullet marks outside an employee’s office window. Epidemiologist Alex Snow reflects on what has happened since: the gunman is gone, but the people and forces that helped fuel his anger remain in positions of po
When the Next Outbreak Comes, America Will Need Its Health Communicators (opens the original)
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We’re back for Season 5 and continuing our series of 📢Voices From the Field in which we lift the voices of public health professionals reflecting on the realities we’re facing today - and the lessons learned across the arc of their careers.Former CDC health communicator Suraj Arshanapally argues that when the next outbreak comes, we will need the people who know how to translate science into information that the public can understand, trust, and act upon. He calls for preserving the essential co
The Longest Summer: Yogurt and the Myth of Sustainable Work (opens the original)
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Season 5 of The Public Health Workforce is Not OK newsletter begins with a very familiar question for working parents: how did summer manage to be both endless and over in the blink of an eye?Tradition tells us that summer is supposed to provide a break, but for those of us trying to balance work and family, it can feel like an entirely different kind of full-time job. As we close out Labor Day and another school year begins, I’m launching the new season of this newsletter by reflecting on what
One Year After the Attack on CDC: a poem of resistance and remembrance (opens the original)
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Content warning: This article contains descriptions of the August 8, 2025 shooting attack at CDC’s Roybal Campus.We revisit our series of 💌Love Letters to Public Health with a poem to mark the one-year anniversary of the attack on CDC, in which DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was killed while responding to protect CDC employees and others on campus. Full-time CDC epidemiologist and part-time poet Maeve O’Reilly shares her writing in honor and memory of Officer Rose.Tomorrow marks one yea
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