Carney Pens Public Health Week Opinion Piece in VTDigger
For National Public Health Week April 7–13, Jan K. Carney, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean of public health and health policy and professor of medicine at the Larner College of Medicine, provided an overview of the purpose and value of public health in a VTDigger opinion piece.
Public health impacts us every day, Carney wrote. And because of public health, our society is healthier, safer, and stronger.
In Vermont and the surrounding region, the Larner College of Medicine has been a champion and trusted voice for public health. Our faculty are experts in their fields ranging from infectious diseases to epidemiology, chronic diseases and climate science. And because we are an academic medical institution, our students and patients benefit from this wealth of knowledge.
Our public health system relies on collaborative partnerships, Carney emphasized. It is the strength of these collective relationships that helps us provide information based on proven data and fuels our persistence, especially as Vermonters, to continue to meet enduring health and social needs.