Shelby County and U of M partner to build public health workforce
To bolster the local public health workforce, the Shelby County Health Department has partnered with the University of Memphis School of Public Health, which played a crucial role in the proposal that resulted in the five-year $13.8 million federal grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (The Daily Memphian file)
Over the next five years, the health department will use nearly $14 million in CDC funding to bolster its workforce and infrastructure.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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