As a CPH professional, you have the opportunity to join the CPH Book Club. The Book Club not only provides you with a space to join lively discussion about relevant, well written pieces, but you also earn 5 credits per year. The book club is for active CPH only.

Participate

To join the Book Club, follow these instructions:

Create an account at goodreads.com > After creating your profile, navigate to Community > Click on Groups in the drop-down menu > Search for CPH Book Club > Request to Join > Enter Your CPH Number > Submit

Current Book Club Pick

Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
by Jennifer Wright

 

Previous Book Club Picks

Toms River: Story of Science and Salvation 
by Dan Fagin

“Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats”
by Maryn McKenna

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

Water 4.0: The Past, The Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource by David Sedlak

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris

Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice by Pam Fessler

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek Murthy

What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha

Covid-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One by Debora MacKenzie

 

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

 

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond

 

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, by Richard Preston

 

The Demon in the Freezer, by Richard Preston

 

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman

 

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling

 

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, by John M. Barry

 

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson

 

Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, by Alisa Roth

 

Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinsky

 

The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind’s Gravest Dangers, by Ali S. Khan

 

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker, PhD

 

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts, William Greider

 

Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong, by Paul A. Offit

 

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones

 

The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How it Changed Science, Cities, and The Modern World, by Steven Johnson

 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot