Public Health Insiders

Public Health Insiders

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Public health is an incredibly diverse field, offering a wide choice of fascinating career options. So much so that it can sometimes be hard to envision a career path.

  • Providing evidence that helps urban planners build bike-friendly cities? That’s public health.
  • Building software to help predict how a viral outbreak will spread through a community? That’s public health.
  • Managing a clinical trial to investigate a promising new drug therapy? That’s public health.
  • Developing and delivering community programs to support refugee and migrant health? That’s public health.

Join public health lecturer Bethany Howard, and health and science communicator Kirsten Marks, as they talk to people working in a wide variety of public health roles, to learn about their journeys from high school to current day, what a day in their working life looks like, and lessons learned along the way.

Season 2

Emily Nelson

Senior Project Manager, The George Institute for Global Health

EPISODE 1

Holly Donaldson

Executive Director, Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA)

EPISODE 2

The Insiders Behind the Mic – Career Pivots and Public Health Perspectives

Kirsten Marks & Bethany Howard

EPISODE 3

Season 1

Micaela Drieberg

CEO of Gender Equity Victoria (GENVIC)

EPISODE 1

Dr Lauren Pearson

Researcher at the Monash University Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research Group

EPISODE 2

Divya Krishnan

Internal Communications Lead at Bank Australia

EPISODE 3

Mitchell Bowden

Engagement Lead at the Monash Health and Social Care Unit

EPISODE 4

Lauren Richardson

Project Manager, Office of the Secretary, Department of Premier and Cabinet; Director, Evidence Based Medicine and Health Policy, GENI

EPISODE 5

Meet your hosts

Bethany and Kirsten first met working at the same public health research unit, when they were both establishing themselves as young researchers. Their career paths subsequently diverged, and they again work together, still in public health, but in very different capacities.