1 00:00:00,550 --> 00:00:01,860 - Hi, I'm Deb Pullin, 2 00:00:01,860 --> 00:00:04,810 and I'm honored to be able to offer support for you 3 00:00:04,810 --> 00:00:08,070 in your public health career choices and journey. 4 00:00:08,070 --> 00:00:09,430 A bit about me first. 5 00:00:09,430 --> 00:00:11,880 My public health career has been deeply intertwined 6 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:13,570 with my clinical career 7 00:00:13,570 --> 00:00:17,210 as a pediatric nurse practitioner and registered nurse. 8 00:00:17,210 --> 00:00:19,870 That clinical work has included primary care 9 00:00:19,870 --> 00:00:23,880 in a very diverse inner city area in Minnesota 10 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,723 and in a more rural region in New Hampshire, 11 00:00:27,810 --> 00:00:29,080 maternal child health 12 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,920 as a public health nurse in rural Ontario, 13 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,780 and many years in child abuse pediatrics in New Hampshire. 14 00:00:36,780 --> 00:00:40,290 And then finally, some school health 15 00:00:40,290 --> 00:00:42,263 during a pandemic in Vermont. 16 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,100 With the child maltreatment work, 17 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:47,500 I was able to teach and participate in research, 18 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:50,080 both of which I very much enjoyed. 19 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,600 But even more, I loved that I was privileged 20 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,700 to work with a wide variety of professionals 21 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:59,620 from various systems working together toward improvement 22 00:00:59,620 --> 00:01:02,540 of related statewide policies. 23 00:01:02,540 --> 00:01:03,700 Throughout my career, 24 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:06,920 I have tremendously valued the public health perspective 25 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,130 with its view of the bigger picture. 26 00:01:09,130 --> 00:01:12,197 That perspective has helped me focus on such questions as, 27 00:01:12,197 --> 00:01:13,837 "How does this family's environment 28 00:01:13,837 --> 00:01:15,977 "and history impact their health? 29 00:01:15,977 --> 00:01:19,457 "What factors in communities and facilities can be changed 30 00:01:19,457 --> 00:01:23,047 "or augmented to improve the health and safety of children? 31 00:01:23,047 --> 00:01:26,650 "And how do we assess the impact of those changes?" 32 00:01:26,650 --> 00:01:29,580 I hope that through your public health career, 33 00:01:29,580 --> 00:01:32,430 you will also have a variety of opportunities 34 00:01:32,430 --> 00:01:35,520 to love what you do, the teams you work with, 35 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,890 and the sense of making a difference. 36 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:41,030 I truly look forward to our conversations. 37 00:01:41,030 --> 00:01:43,107 Until then, bye-bye.