2018
DOI: 10.1177/0033354918791542
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Trends in the Conferral of Graduate Public Health Degrees: A Triangulated Approach

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“…National trends show that women were more likely to pursue an MPH 22 . In 2016 women obtained 73% of public health degrees and non‐White (which was classified as all ethnic minorities, not just underrepresented minorities) students obtained 47% of degrees.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…National trends show that women were more likely to pursue an MPH 22 . In 2016 women obtained 73% of public health degrees and non‐White (which was classified as all ethnic minorities, not just underrepresented minorities) students obtained 47% of degrees.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…of infectious disease physicians 9 and 73% of public health degree recipients in the United States. 10 Despite there being a signi cant proportion of women in these COVID-19 related professions, women account for only 13% of health systems CEOs 11 and for two of the eighteen former administrators of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. 12 This suggests that a lack of women in high-pro le positions may also contribute to low representation of women experts in newspaper articles.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although these and other important workforce issues are facing the EH profession (Gerding et al 2019), academic training at the undergraduate and graduate levels is not currently meeting such trajectories. For example, only 6% (in 2015) of students in public health degree programs are pursuing EH concentrations (Leider et al 2018), but EH training provides scientific rigor necessary to engage historic and emerging threats to public health. Further, this percentage has decreased by 5% over the past two decades (from 11% in 1996), which contributes to EH practitioners sometimes perceived as an "invisible" or a "silent" profession (Blake 2007;Whiley et al 2018).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, the last national study of Sanitarians, a title historically associated with a segment of EH professionals, was performed more than a half century ago by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Pennell et al 1963). Such an exercise appears timely and important for public health because 26% of EH professionals working in U.S. health departments plan to retire within 5 y (Gerding et al 2019), but only 6% of students pursuing public health degrees are focusing their studies in EH (Leider et al 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%