Public Health Informatics

Hello everyone,

As you all know public health students and graduates who work in our frontline public health departments. Our public health system is underfunded and desperately needs more highly-trained professionals. Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program Student loans are a major barrier for public health graduates entering government jobs. Local and state health departments only employ around 10% of the graduates who get public health degrees each year.

I recently became a National Alliance of Public Health Students and Alums (NAPHSA) captain for my congressional district MD06. NAPSHA is a newly incorporated, nonpartisan, nonprofit 501c4 organization, focused on advocacy, empowerment, and education of public health students and alumni to create organized power for public health students and graduates, the public health workforce, public health authorities, and the public health profession.

This year, we are focusing on securing funding for the public health loan repayment program, which would offer up to $50,000 a year for three years to public health degree graduates who work in public health departments. The program was authorized in 2022, but no funding has been allocated to date. This means that while various professionals' benefit from specific loan repayment programs, public health graduates are left without such crucial support. 

We will be meeting with our reps and senators sometime in March to discuss how we can push funding for public health graduates.

Would you be willing to attend the meeting with us? There is Power in numbers!

If you can be that person, PLEASE connect with me as soon as possible and I will be in contact.

Please share with any Health professional you know!

Thank you so much!

For more information about this effort, please visit http://naphsa.org

This is awesome Venessa! I'd love to spread the word among my alma mater and colleagues. May I refer them to you if they have questions? 

Hello everyone,

As you all know public health students and graduates who work in our frontline public health departments. Our public health system is underfunded and desperately needs more highly-trained professionals. Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program Student loans are a major barrier for public health graduates entering government jobs. Local and state health departments only employ around 10% of the graduates who get public health degrees each year.

I recently became a National Alliance of Public Health Students and Alums (NAPHSA) captain for my congressional district MD06. NAPSHA is a newly incorporated, nonpartisan, nonprofit 501c4 organization, focused on advocacy, empowerment, and education of public health students and alumni to create organized power for public health students and graduates, the public health workforce, public health authorities, and the public health profession.

This year, we are focusing on securing funding for the public health loan repayment program, which would offer up to $50,000 a year for three years to public health degree graduates who work in public health departments. The program was authorized in 2022, but no funding has been allocated to date. This means that while various professionals' benefit from specific loan repayment programs, public health graduates are left without such crucial support. 

We will be meeting with our reps and senators sometime in March to discuss how we can push funding for public health graduates.

Would you be willing to attend the meeting with us? There is Power in numbers!

If you can be that person, PLEASE connect with me as soon as possible and I will be in contact.

Please share with any Health professional you know!

Thank you so much!

For more information about this effort, please visit http://naphsa.org

Hello everyone,

As you all know public health students and graduates who work in our frontline public health departments. Our public health system is underfunded and desperately needs more highly-trained professionals. Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program Student loans are a major barrier for public health graduates entering government jobs. Local and state health departments only employ around 10% of the graduates who get public health degrees each year.

I recently became a National Alliance of Public Health Students and Alums (NAPHSA) captain for my congressional district MD06. NAPSHA is a newly incorporated, nonpartisan, nonprofit 501c4 organization, focused on advocacy, empowerment, and education of public health students and alumni to create organized power for public health students and graduates, the public health workforce, public health authorities, and the public health profession.

This year, we are focusing on securing funding for the public health loan repayment program, which would offer up to $50,000 a year for three years to public health degree graduates who work in public health departments. The program was authorized in 2022, but no funding has been allocated to date. This means that while various professionals' benefit from specific loan repayment programs, public health graduates are left without such crucial support. 

We will be meeting with our reps and senators sometime in March to discuss how we can push funding for public health graduates.

Would you be willing to attend the meeting with us? There is Power in numbers!

If you can be that person, PLEASE connect with me as soon as possible and I will be in contact.

Please share with any Health professional you know!

Thank you so much!

For more information about this effort, please visit http://naphsa.org