Description
Book SynopsisTriumph, tragedy, frustration, and elation await those who set off on careers in public health, and Ten Lessons in Public Health is destined to become a classic book that puts the field into perspective.
Trade ReviewSommer is deftly able to explore his field's big ideas by directly following ordinary human stories, which not only makes the lessons easy to understand but foregrounds the reasons why to do it in the first place. -- Bret McCabe Johns Hopkins Magazine Sommer's new memoir is also a gift to students-'Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders' is the subtitle-full of stories from a career spent in some of the poorest corners of the world, amid political upheaval and natural disasters. -- Dan Rodricks Baltimore Sun Alfred Sommer has now done exactly what we desire and written 10 Lessons in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders. Sommer combines the wisdom of going to where the problems are... with a discussion of the limitation of a job description... These aren't just lessons for public health. These are lessons for life. -- Bill Foege, Author of House on Fire Lancet
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1. Go Where the Problems Are
Chapter 2. Get into the Field
Chapter 3. Forget the Job Description
Chapter 4. Don't Count on Things Staying the Same
Chapter 5. Follow Most, but Not All, of the Rules
Chapter 6. Collect Good Data—Even if You Don't Yet Know What Important Questions They May Answer
Chapter 7. Remember Your Humanity
Chapter 8. Use Data to Set Policy
Chapter 9. If You Think You're Right, Keep Pushing
Chapter 10. Take the Long View
Epilogue
