{"id":6291,"date":"2026-09-25T14:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/?p=6291"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:10:15","slug":"the-work-behind-healthier-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/2026\/09\/25\/the-work-behind-healthier-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work Behind Healthier Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2026\/09\/newsletter-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2026\/09\/newsletter-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2026\/09\/newsletter-10.png 1280w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2026\/09\/newsletter-10-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2026\/09\/newsletter-10-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2026\/09\/newsletter-10-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>When most people think about public health, they think about the outcomes: healthier communities, disease prevention, clean air, safer workplaces, and access to reliable health information. What often goes unnoticed are the people behind those efforts. Public health professionals work across research, healthcare, government, nonprofits, education, and industry to address complex health challenges and improve lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read our latest edition of, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/work-behind-healthier-communities-uconnaphs-0y0sf\">Your Dose of Public Health<\/a>\u00a0today!<span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When most people think about public health, they think about the outcomes: healthier communities, disease prevention, clean air, safer workplaces, and access to reliable health information. What often goes unnoticed are the people behind those efforts. Public health professionals work across research, healthcare, government, nonprofits, education, and industry to address complex health challenges and improve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3717,"featured_media":6292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-04 01:13:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6293,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions\/6293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}