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McCoy, S. I., & MacDonald, P. D. M. (2020). Need to amplify health security? Fuse academia and practice. Public Health Reports, 135(4), 420-423. Article 0033354920935075. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033354920935075
More than 13 years ago, we had a vision for how we would respond to the pandemic of today. Structural linkages between academic schools and programs of public health and the local, state, and federal public health practice community would expose students to public health practice, thereby opening new career opportunities in health security; fostering academic research with practical, policy-relevant public health benefits; bringing technical expertise to local governments; and being readily scalable for response to urgent public health threats. We now have an opportunity to determine our nation’s future response to a major health security threat, and perhaps the best place to look for a playbook lies in the past.