TY - JOUR T1 - Public health education post-COVID-19: a proposal for critical revisions JF - BMJ Global Health JO - BMJ Global Health DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005669 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - e005669 AU - Abdul Ghaffar AU - Sabina Faiz Rashid AU - Rhoda Kitti Wanyenze AU - Adnan A Hyder Y1 - 2021/04/01 UR - http://gh.bmj.com/content/6/4/e005669.abstract N2 - Improving the health of people is an essential and perhaps one of the most important functions of any government; health is not only a contributor to overall development but also an important factor in reducing poverty. To achieve health of their populations, nations build health infrastructure and invest in a well-trained health workforce. Public health knowledge, expertise and a skilled workforce play a critical role in prevention of disease, promotion of health, developing programmes, monitoring and evaluation of health systems. Schools of public health (and allied institutions) all over the world play a key role in the production of such a workforce and have traditionally focused on competencies in areas such as epidemiology, statistics, health systems, disease prevention, health economics and environmental health.COVID-19 is the first pandemic to strike the world since early 1900s and has magnified the existing inequalities and inequities around the world. Addressing the pandemic requires not only a biomedical approach but also incorporating a broader social sciences approach to health, and most fundamentally, listening and learning from existing diverse communities and health systems, flexibility and capacity to work across sectors, and recognition of social justice, equity and human rights as basic principles, while undertaking public health actions in diverse contexts. This situation has also provoked thinking around potential lessons for public health education.1 Just as earlier societal, political and epidemiological shifts prompted developments within public health, we believe that a strengthened public health can emerge from these tumultuous times.The ongoing pandemic has clearly shown the global health community that there is a need to further strengthen capacity, competencies and knowledge in … ER -