Community violence, environmentalism, and mindfulness were among the topics discussed during National Public Health Week activities held throughout the Mount Sinai Health System starting on Monday, April 2. The Graduate Program in Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai organized lectures, informational tables, and a screening of Lost in Detention, a documentary on immigration policy. The events culminated on Friday, April 6, with a Day of Service at the New York City Rescue Mission, one of the nation’s oldest shelters, in which several Master of Public Health students volunteered to prepare and serve dinner. “In public health, we often look at numbers and not faces,” says Whitney Wortham, a third-year MSW/MPH student and Day of Service organizer. “It is important that we ground the theoretical to reality and engage with people as people—not just as the population we study.”
Staff, students, and visitors learn about careers in Public Health during National Public Health Week activities in Guggenheim Pavilion.