A new open-access eBook, Transformative Public Health Education, has been published by Public Health Reviews, bringing together scholarship on innovative, inclusive, and policy-relevant approaches to preparing the public health workforce.
The eBook grew out of a special issue focused on how public health education can better prepare learners and professionals to adapt, respond, innovate, and remain resilient in the face of complex and disruptive public health challenges. Its development was shaped in part by lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, which highlighted gaps in preparedness and reinforced the need for education that strengthens areas such as professionalism, community service, digital health and technology, research and analytical skills, communication, leadership, and responsiveness to diversity.
The eBook was edited by an international team spanning several GNAPH regions: Katarzyna Czabanowska of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Mark Avery of Griffith University in Australia, Suzanne Babich of Indiana University in the United States, Laura Magaña of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH), and Mindaugas Stankunas of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.
For the GNAPH community, the publication is especially timely. Across regions, schools and programs of public health continue to consider how curricula, faculty development, experiential learning, technology, and partnerships can evolve alongside a rapidly changing public health landscape. The collection offers perspectives that can help educators reflect on how public health education can move beyond knowledge acquisition alone toward approaches that are adaptive, experiential, competency-based, and responsive to community and workforce needs.
Published in August 2026, the eBook is open access, making it freely available to educators, researchers, students, and public health professionals worldwide.
Explore Transformative Public Health Education
Read the Special Issue Editorial, Transformative public health education – are we there, yet?