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1. Contemporary Public Health: Principles, Practice, and Policy
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3. Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition
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4. The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
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5. An Introduction to Community Health
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6. Beating Back the Devil
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10. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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11. Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why (Stanford Economics and Finance)
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15. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)
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16. Rose's Strategy of Preventive Medicine
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17. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Hey, glad to hear you're interested in public health. It sounds like you have a great background and would be an excellent candidate for the MPH (are you in school now? or just thinking about it?). DC is also a great place to be for public health; obviously, a lot of policy is determined there, but there are also a lot of headquarters/non-profits/etc to work with that are heavily involved in public health.
If you're interested in Infectious Disease/Global Health, then the obvious choice for you would be Epidemiology. Where I went to school, they even had a specific program for this called GLEPI (or global epi) and I think it is fairly common at many public health schools. GLEPI is a great area to go into, you'd like it a lot if you enjoyed your time in the Peace corps. If you decide to go with the MPH then you should look into the EIS at some point. I know they can be pretty selective and rarely take people with just their MPH, but it sounds like you would be a good fit for that. What did you work on in the Peace Corps?
I got my MPH in Epidemiology/Infectious Disease about 3 years ago. I work in a non-profit that does active disease surveillance in ATL, GA (basically a contractor for CDC). My job consists of doing medical chart reviews (probably 20%), but a LOT of the rest of my duties involve organizing and entering data. So much so, that we barely have any time to analyze it. I probably spend about 10% of my time actually analyzing and presenting data, but I think this is just unique to my employer, a lot of MPHs I know don't experience this.
One common sentiment I hear from a lot from MPH's is that it is difficult to 'move up the ladder'. Don't get me wrong, you can land a fantastic job earning over 50k a year right out of school, but the MPH can only take you so far. It really depends on where you work too. My observations might be specific to CDC, but if you want to be leadership position, you have to wait around for someone to vacate a position and then be lucky enough to get it (very rare where I am), or go on a get an additional degree (MD, DVM, PhD...). I've sort of been learning that in the hard-science disciplines, your position/placement and status is generally based on your degree, whereas a lot of the soft-sciences base their advancement policies more on merit and experience. Mind you, I have no evidence for this, it's just my personal feeling =).
I feel like I've been focusing on a lot of negatives, so let me talk about some of the good things! My favorite aspect about the degree is its vast applicability. Nearly every problem/current event has a public health aspect. The first thing that comes to mind is Ebola, that's been in the news a lot lately obviously =). Another great thing is the community, public health people are very intelligent, polite and positive attitude people. It's not a cutthroat environment like my friends in Business or Medicine frequently complain to me about. I also think that the field has enormous growth potential. Public health is grossly underfunded in the US, but I don't think it will be like this forever. A great read if you're serious about learning more about the history of public health and it's future is Contemporary Public Health: Principles, Practice, and Policy.
Anyways, I've been talking a lot. Feel free to PM me if you have specific questions or want to talk more!
Congrats on your promotion! I did my undergrad in Geography and am almost done with my MPH, so fellow GIS person here. There is an interest group in the American Association of Geographers you can reach out to if you haven't already. I'm not sure what your baseline is for public health, but I've included two books I've liked and used for reference on occasion. I'm sure you'll know all the geography concepts, but it's nice to see how they relate to the public health side.
I know a lot of universities offer free classes for their employees, maybe you could take a couple of public health courses if you were so inclined just to get a good baseline. I'm not sure what area of public health your doing your work in, but it's never a bad idea to pay attention to publications to see what's new.
https://www.amazon.com/Cartographies-Disease-Mapping-Medicine-expanded/dp/1589484673/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1498073326&sr=8-6&keywords=GIS+public+health
https://www.amazon.com/GIS-Public-Health-Ellen-Cromley/dp/1609187504/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498073326&sr=8-1&keywords=GIS+public+health
The Kaiser Family Foundation is a really good source of information.
http://www.kff.org/
Haven't read it myself, but it's been recommended by several professors:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Health-Care-Paradox-Spending/dp/1610395484
Play around on Google scholar and you'll find lots of great information. Good luck!
My department assigned a standard textbook. If you don't want to write a whole course from scratch, a standard textbook gives you a course outline, and you can supplement the readings if you want.
We used this: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Community-Health-Seventh-Edition/dp/0763790117 (you can see the table of contents here).
I did a mix of lecture, activities, and guest speakers. It's easy to forget how naive the students are. For example, we did a group activity where I had the students examine and fill out a worksheet on an evidence-based school health curriculum (I know a place where I can borrow the manuals). I had them look for such things as the theoretical basis, the behavior change model, and the intervention methods, EDIT, program evaluation methods, etc. /EDIT. Almost no one in the class had ever even seen a curriculum like this (yet many of them were preparing to become health educators). It was a awesome opportunity to expose them to some standard tools of the trade! After the students had examined the curriculum, I had them report to the class on their findings. We had several different curricula, so we could compare the differences. The students did all the processing (e.g., similarities and differences).
I think it's important to have a good idea of the underlying conceptual content of the course: What theories and main ideas you are interested in. In my school, it seems that UGs have rarely been taught theory (such has theories of health behavior, ecological models), but they are perfectly capable of understanding it if you break it down and make it concrete.
I used a short case (e.g., of a disease outbreak in a town) and had the students brainstorm the causes of the disease. With some prompting (and why did that happen? and why did that happen?) they are capable of assembling and arriving at a cogent, muti-level, multi-domain ecological model of disease/health causation, even if they have never done a reading on it.
I recommend [Beating Back the Devil] (http://www.amazon.com/Beating-Back-Devil-Maryn-McKenna/dp/1439123101/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450903258&sr=8-1&keywords=beating+back+the+devil) to learn about the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service. It was SO interesting, and you learn a lot about one of the more exciting jobs in public health. I'm in epi but I definitely don't have it in me to travel around the world fighting disease. But even if you're a homebody like me, I would still recommend it just because it's a great read.
Both posts above are great advice. You have a short amount of time to accomplish as much as possible, and practical experience is invaluable if you want to be competitive in the job market. I'm in a 2-year MPH program (in Epi), and finished all the required coursework in a year and a half taking 5 classes. The workload hasn't been too bad, and having a part-time job on the side shouldn't be too much of a problem (except maybe around midterms/finals, obviously).
A friend of mine who was already in the MPH program recommended reading this book before I started, and it helped get comfortable with Epi, so I didn't feel like I was plunged into a whole new world when classes began: http://www.amazon.com/Epidemiology-Introduction-Kenneth-J-Rothman/dp/0199754551/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
I recently read Pain and Prejudice by Karen Messing, which is an interesting study about the empathy gap between scientists and the people they study. I initially read it for the framework of workers' health, but it's a fascinating study into how our work as scientists interacts with people. The book came out last September and is a retrospective over the author's whole career but I think it would be a good read for people who are considering PH research.
Also a new IOM report updating our knowledge of indoor environmental exposures that contribute to asthma: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25303775. It's really a confirmation of things we already knew, just reporting on more data that solidifies it. This can be translated towards several fields with regards to prevention and control of exposures that exacerbate asthma as it becomes more and more prevalent.
Agree with The Ghost Map. The Emperor of All Maladies is good if you are interested in cancer-related health and public health.
Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why
Literally just started it so haven't really formed any opinions on it yet, but so far it's an interesting look at health policy using a different set of economic tools than are normally applied.
I have two recommendations. One I've read, and the other I have on my list to read--but both seem to be what you're looking for.
My recommendation: The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health by John Duffy. This book begins in colonial America and goes into the 1980s. Its strength is in the historical analysis of the American hygiene movement.
On my reading list: A History of Public Health by George Rosen. Johns Hopkins publishes this and they seem to keep it in print by coming out with an update every few years with some extra content. This was first written in the late 1950s. It starts with a history from Greek and Roman times, and then summarizes various epochs: 500-1500, 1500-1750, 1750-1830, 1830-1875, and 1875-1950.
First of all, public health isn't useless and boring. But you are definitely uninformed, and it's hard to tell whether to blame that on a shitty attitude or a shitty education. Probably both.
What you should do, though, is do some (inspirational) reading in public health. I'd hope that your education would have provided you with this, but I guess not, from what you are saying, so here's a few recommendations, and I hope other people here will chime in with their own:
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Highly recommend The Ghost Map
This is the first textbook I was required to use for my public health classes. http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781284089233/
but as others have told you, PH is very, very broad. This is a beginner book.
Here's one for the US healthcare system https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-U-S-Health-Care-System/dp/082610214X
Seconding Rothman. Dry but thorough.
Edit: this one https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Epidemiology-Kenneth-J-Rothman/dp/1451190050
An American Sickness:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Sickness-Healthcare-Became-Business/dp/1594206759
Probably the biggest eye-opener I've ever read.