Public Health SPOTlight Podcast
Sujani Sivanantharajah, the founder of PHSPOT.org sits down with public health heroes of our time to share career stories, inspiration, and guidance for building public health careers.
The message she hopes to share through these conversations is that building a career is not only about climbing up the ranks, but about crafting a life that you want, around your unique needs, and one that gives importance to your mental health, wellbeing, and building relationships and friendships: you can only do good in the world if you take care of yourself.
Through PH SPOTlight, you will connect with peers you have never met before, and build relationships in a deep and meaningful way.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 173
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Quick career tips: Open up a wealth of career opportunities with an elevator pitch
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Today’s career tip is on how to pitch your public health experience and skill-set to land that job, interview, or opportunity you’ve been eye…
Public Health Resources Series: Public Health Connect, with Harman Sandhu and Aditi Garg
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On this episode, Sujani sits down with Harman Sandhu and Aditi Garg from Public Health Connect (PHC). They discuss what PHC is and how it sup…
A Day in the Life of a Community Health Nurse and MBA student, Brandon Kober
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On this week’s episode, Sujani speaks with Brandon Kober, a community health nurse, who is currently pursuing his MBA. Brandon explains the r…
Quick career tips: Use this job satisfaction checklist as your career compass
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In this episode of Quick career tips, Sujani discusses job satisfaction.
Depending on which study or survey result you review we know that no…
The public health resume, CV and more, with Career Coach Alison McAlear
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In this episode, Sujani sits down with Alison McAlear to talk all things CVs and resumes. These documents are tools we all need in our career…
Leveraging the power of LinkedIn for career success, with Jeremy Schifeling
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On this episode, Sujani sits down with Jeremy Schifeling, a former LinkedIn employee in the Higher Education Team. Jeremy has devoted his car…
ABC's of informational interviews in the public health world with Shanna Shulman
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On today’s episode Sujani speaks with Shanna Shulman about informational interviews. Informational interviews are very important and key to …
New year. New you. New job? Introducing a new mini series & Career Workshop.
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This year, January 14th to be exact, PH SPOT celebrates 5 years. It’s unbelievable that 5 years have gone by already. Sujani created PH SPOT…
2021 Wrap-up!
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Show Notes
In this episode the whole team sits down to discuss the past year at PH Spot. Join Sujani, Kajanth, Lis, Janu and Kelsey as they ta…
Quick Career Tips: Set public health career goals
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Today’s career tip spotlight is on setting public health career goals.
As we prepare for the new year, Sujani shares her annual goal-setting p…
The landscape of public health education and employment, with Senior Director of Data Analytics at Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health Christine Plepys
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Show Notes
In this episode, Sujani sits down with Christine Plepys to talk about the variety of career paths that she’s had and how this has i…
Quick career tips: Get yourself a mentor for your public health career
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Show Notes
One of the top career advice you will receive, regardless of whether you are in public health or not, is to find yourself a mentor.
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Should I pursue a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree?, with Elizabeth Loftus
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In this episode, Sujani sits down with Elizabeth Loftus to discuss Elizabeth's options for her potential career in public health. …
A senior health executive’s career journey, with York Region Public Health’s Chief Nursing Officer and Logistics HR Chief of the Health Emergency Operations for COVID 19 response Julia Roitenberg
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In this episode, Sujani sits down with Julia Roitenberg who took on the role of Chief Nursing Officer at York Region Public Health …
Quick career tips: Tap into your network - Strategies to gain public health work experience (Part 3)
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This three-part career tips series is inspired by a blog post written and published in 2019 by Sujani titled: 3 strategies to build up your p…
Adapting to the future of online learning and teaching during a pandemic, with Siobhan Hickling & Gina Arena
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Show Notes
In this episode, Sujani sits down with authors of the paper “Adapting to Teaching during a Pandemic” Siobahn Hickling and Gina Aren…
Quick career tips: Offer up your skills - Strategies to gain public health work experience (Part 2)
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This three-part career tips series is inspired by a blog post written and published in 2019 by Sujani titled: 3 strategies to build up your p…
Journey to becoming an Assistant Professor, mentoring graduate students, and launching an initiative to close the communication loop during the pandemic, with Dr. Katelyn Jetelina
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Show Notes
In this episode, Sujani speaks with assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center and the author of Your Loc…
Quick career tips: Don’t take yourself out of the game - Strategies to gain public health work experience (Part 1)
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This three-part career tips series is inspired by a blog post written and published in 2019 by Sujani titled: 3 strategies to build…
A discussion on the public health workforce, with Assistant Dean and Director of Career Services at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Heather Krasna
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In this episode, Sujani speaks with Assistant Dean and Director of Career Services at Columbia University Mailman School of Public …