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Beginning with the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service in 1895, public health nursing was envisioned by Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster to promote community resilience, in cooperation with multisectoral private-public partnerships, by meeting people where they are without blaming them for their problems.2 Two articles in this supplement demonstrate the impact of public health nursing practices and policies on strengthening community resilience at multiple levels of influence: adaptive (ability to adjust), absorptive (ability to cope), anticipatory (ability to predict and be proactive), and transformative (ability to transform systems to deal with change and uncertainty).3 Guided by the Community Resiliency Model, Duva et al. (p. S271) describe the impact of a nurse-led public health intervention designed to meet population mental health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guided by the Public Health 3.0 and communitybased participatory frameworks, Austin et al. (p. S275) describe a communityvalidated mobile application that provided actionable data to communities to address substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting the focus of the communities from a deficit-based approach to a strength-based or resilience approach. CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence should be sent to Catherine M. Waters, RN, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, Schoolof Nursing, Department of Community Health Systems, 2 Koret Way, San Francisco, CA 94143-0608 (e-mail: catherine.waters@ ucsf.edu).
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Zauche et al. (p. S226) describe public health nursing(PHN) roles at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and how the nursing profession has been essential in ensuring the health and safety of our most vulnerable groups. [...]Singer et al. (p. S288) examine how spirituality may inform health and health care beliefs and behaviors among Black sex workers during COVID-19. [...]they call for meaningful partnerships between primary care, public health, and community organizations to achieve this level of cohesion. To ensure that no one is left behind, they propose solutions to the central question facing PHN educators adept in patient and individual as well as population health: "How do we improve interprofessional environmental health education to achieve effective collaboration beyond the bedside?" Harris et al. (p. S231) emphasize the urgent need to train the next cadre of nurses who are interested in public health and health policy careers to prepare them for future challenges.
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An introduction to articles in the issue is presented on topics including the planetary health crisis, COVID-19 pandemic issues, and the importance of nurses to public health policy and practice.