The Division of Public Health Practice has launched a speaker series aimed at helping HSPH students learn more about how their degrees can benefit them after graduation.

The "Public Health Practice Speakers Series" allows working public health professionals to describe the steps they took to gain their positions and the challenges they have taken on.

"The speakers put real-life topics out on the table," said Betty Johnson, assistant director for training and curriculum development at the Division, who helped organize the series with an advisory board that consisted of 11 HSPH students.

Upcoming lectures include: "Ending Domestic Violence from the Public Health Perspective" with Elsbeth Kalenderian, executive director, Transition House (10.29); "International Leadership in Public Health" with four HSPH master’s and doctoral students, who will talk about their own working experiences (11.20); and "Bioterrorism in the US: Public Health Implications" with Deborah Prothrow-Stith, director, Division of Public Health Practice, and Leonard Marcus, director, Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Division of Public Health Practice (12.2). HSPH was recently named a Center for Public Health Preparedness by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

All lectures are open to the public, are located in FXB G-13, and are from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.