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Q&A with the authors of The Public's Health, on its first birthday

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation posted an interesting interview with Michael Yudell and Jonathan Purtle, the experts behind this blog.

Don Sapatkin is the bicycle-commuting Inquirer public health reporter who edits The Public's Health blog.

By Don Sapatkin

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on Wednesday posted an interesting interview with Michael Yudell and Jonathan Purtle, the experts behind The Public's Health.

It has been a year since Michael and Jonathan launched the only blog at a major American newspaper (OK, a blog isn't on paper but the organizational structure remains) that is devoted exclusively to public health.

Michael (faculty) and Jonathan (doctoral candidate), both at the Drexel University School of Public Health, presented this week at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in San Francisco, where they were interviewed by RWJF's NewPublicHealth. It's worth a read.

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