Future public health governance: investing in young professionals
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EDITORIAL
Future public health governance: investing in young professionals Vasileios Nittas1 • Diana Buitrago-Garcia2 • Shala Chetty-Mhlanga3 • Pauline Yongeun Grimm4,5 Germa´n Guerra6,7 • Chandni Patel5,8 • Peter Francis Raguindin2
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Received: 17 August 2020 / Revised: 20 August 2020 / Accepted: 20 August 2020 Ó Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) 2020
COVID-19 has taught us how fragile our public health systems are and how much we rely on skilled leadership in healthcare, academia, and politics. The pandemic has
This Editorial is part of the series ‘‘Young Researcher Editorial’’. It was written on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the IJPH. & Vasileios Nittas [email protected] Diana Buitrago-Garcia [email protected] Shala Chetty-Mhlanga [email protected] Pauline Yongeun Grimm [email protected] Germa´n Guerra [email protected] Chandni Patel [email protected] Peter Francis Raguindin [email protected] 1
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Graduate School of Health Sciences, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Environmental Exposures and Health Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
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Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
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University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Centre for Health Systems Research, Global Health Program, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
uncovered an ugly truth—that public health leadership can prevent disaster or bring failure. The public and global health ecosystem is becoming increasingly volatile and uncertain. Over the next 100 years, public health leaders will have to tackle new and complex challenges as they emerge. For that to be successful, we need to prepare and empower that next generation to recognize and solve these problems. That requires considerable investments in nurturing them early in their careers. Young professionals are the de facto future of public health. They are the sources of innovative ideas, are tuned into emerging topics, and can suggest fresh ways to approach them. We will bequeath their generation a dynamic, fluid public health landscape and we must prepare them to meet the likely challenges of the next century. We need to involve them in decisionmaking, encourage interdisciplinary collaborations, foster communication skills, and equip them with the skills they need to face the future. Socio-political and environmental changes over the last hundred years have created a variety of new public health challenges (Koplan and Fleming 2000). These challenges will likely conti
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