Public Health Musings and Resources

[katethekitcat]

Like everyone else, I’m tired of waiting and of refreshing my e-mail twenty times in a workday to see there’s any admissions news, despite the fact schools have been transparent about the fact there’s a long wait left.

 

So, instead, here is a thread devoted to discussing cool topics in the thing we all care about: public health! Post any articles, findings, public health ramblings you have here.

 

To start off with:

 

The Public Health Schools Annual Data Report (alas, from 2010 – can’t find a newer one) that lists, among other things, the number of applicants and the percentage accepted at each school of public health.

 

Hunger Games Survival Analysis – just in case anyone hasn’t seen this. A public health blogger applied epidemiology methods to the Hunger Games to analyze rates of survival and found a bunch of cool patterns in the book.

[katethekitcat]

Epidemiology Night School - has some great explanations of the math in epidemiology. 

[123hardasABC]

reddit.com/r/publichealth

[katethekitcat]

Aaaaaand it's flu season. Sooooo glad it looks like it's our age group getting hit - just what we need when stressing about grad school.

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-07/holidays-bring-flu-as-virus-hits-young-adults-at-year-end.html

[katethekitcat]

Stole this off the philosophy chat boards - I believe it's geared more towards humanities students, but all of these sound like great standards in general. How to be a positive presence/graduate student at academic conferences:

 

http://melissaridleyelmes.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/its-not-on-the-syllabus-cultivating-collegiality-as-a-graduate-student/