From Emergency Medical Technician to helping organizations make sense of their data, with Heidi Berthoud
The Public Health SPOTlight Podcast: stories, inspiration, and guidance to build your dream public health career
English - May 31, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBSelf-Improvement Education Business Careers public health career health health career education higher ed self-improvement school job community Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Sujani sits down with Heidi Berthoud, the founder of Heidi Berthoud Consulting. They talk about Heidi’s career journey, what led her to creating her own company, and how to successfully build a network and run a business.
You’ll Learn
How Heidi became interested in public health through frontline work as an EMT and other personal experiences Advice on breaking into public health for those who may not have a formal public health or science backgroundHeidi’s experience with balancing school and a full time jobHeidi’s experience with research and her areas of interestAdvice for those looking to get into consulting work including networking tips, building a client base, and figuring exactly what kind of work you want to do What resources such as business coaching are availableWhat Heidi has learned from running her own business
Today’s Guest
Heidi is an experienced leader who began her public health and social service career at a large non-profit county hospital supporting training teams in the nursing education department. She received her Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Washington and concurrently completed a Global Health Masters Certificate.
Heidi has more than 20 years of knowledge and experience in health care research, evaluation, technical writing, public health initiatives, qualitative data collection and analysis, and patient advocacy. Her experience includes working with government, academia, and non-profit organizations and she has been invited to work with Indigenous communities developing and delivering surveys and evaluations.
She is the founder and principal consultant at Heidi Berthoud Consulting, LLC where she works with Public Health departments and health and social service organizations conducting community health needs assessments, program evaluations, and helping teams collect data they can actually use to improve their work.
Resources
Learn more about Heidi Berthoud Consulting Follow Heidi on LinkedIn and learn more about her research Listen to the previous episode with Stephanie Moxley Listen to the previous episode with Maudra Brown Learn more about the book "Company of One" by Paul JarvisJoin The Public Health Career Club: the #1 hangout spot and community dedicated to building and growing your dream public health career.