Teaching Public Health Writing

Armed with up-to-date theory, narrative examples, and detailed instructions from writing assignments used in public health classrooms across disciplines and genres, Teaching Public Health Writing offers public health instructors the skills needed to refresh or redesign in-course writing instruction and assignments, ensuring the next generation of professionals have the tools they need to communicate confidently and effectively.

Jennifer Beard, PhD, MA, MPH, is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health where she is the Director of the Public Health Writing Program. She is an Assistant Director of Narrative in the BU Center for Antiracist Research, the Associate Editor of Public Health Post, and a co-founder of the Global Health Storytelling Program.

Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1: THEORY AND PRACTICAL STRATEGIES
CHAPTER 1. Writing Across the Life Course
CHAPTER 2. When You Can't Remove the Pump Handle, Reduce Harm
CHAPTER 3. Designing Writing Assignments for Public Health Classes
CHAPTER 4. Assessment Involves Much More Than Assigning a Grade
PART 2: ANTHOLOGY OF WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
CHAPTER 5. Examples of Public Health Writing Assignments
Epilogue