Teaching Public Health Writing

Clear, concise, and engaging writing is essential to public health practice, and the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for effective communication. Teaching Public Health Writing is a call to action for schools and programs of public health to prioritize writing practice and mentoring in their curriculum. The book offers instructors a guide to refresh or redesign in-course writing instruction and assignments, ensuring the next generation of public health professionals have the tools they need to communicate confidently and effectively.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Clear, concise, and engaging writing is of paramount importance in public health practice, as the Covid-19 pandemic has repeatedly underscored. Despite our best efforts, with the most well-intentioned intentions and evidence, public health professionals and researchers have struggled to communicate clear messages to the diverse audiences seeking information. As a result, resistance, miscommunication, and political division have intensified. Teaching Public Health Writing is a rallying call for schools and public health programs. Drawing on her interdisciplinary background in population health and the humanities, Jennifer Beard argues that writing practice and mentorship should be integral components of the graduate and undergraduate public health curriculum.

Public health students are acquiring the skills to translate complex technical content from various disciplines into engaging documents tailored for diverse audiences. This learning process can be time-consuming and anxiety-inducing. Teaching Public Health Writing, the first book in the new Teaching Public Health instructor series, challenges educators at all levels to reevaluate the role of writing in public health education.

Through the use of composition and public health theory, narrative examples, and detailed instructions from writing assignments used in public health classrooms across diverse disciplines and genres, Teaching Public Health Writing provides instructors with a valuable guide to refresh or redesign in-course writing instruction and assignments. It ensures that the next generation of public health professionals possesses the necessary tools to communicate confidently and effectively.

Weight: 214g
Dimension: 210 x 403 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780197576465