I had a rude awakening when I transferred from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte to the more prestigious UNC-Chapel Hill my junior year. Like a smack in the face, I was immediately hit by how much harder UNC-Chapel Hill would be, and not just because of the…

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of mental health issues is a psychiatric ward. Why wouldn’t that be the case? In all my years of watching television and reading novels, those prison-like institutes have been a popular backdrop for addressing mental health issues, so it makes…

This is the first post of my “Perspectives” series, in which I work with others to describe public health issues from their points of view. This blog comes from the perspective of Alina Fortunato, an Afro-Latinx senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ninety-eighth percentile. When this…

I am pleased to share Public Health Impact’s statement on breastfeeding support in our workplace (beta version). I hope that we can be part of a “new normal,” where mothers do not have to make the choice between their careers and providing optimal care and nutrition for their babies. Children…

GOOOOOOOOOLLLLL! No, not that type of gol. But a gol and your program goals are similar in that everything is structured around achieving that goal, or gol. To evaluate your initiative, you must first know what you want to accomplish. Sounds simple, right? If you manage a program promoting some…

Evaluation. What just came to mind? A necessary activity just slightly between filling out your tax forms and dealing with your local cable provider on the pain scale? That 25-page report that you haven’t gotten around to reading and is on the verge of being repurposed as fireplace kindling? Evaluation…