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Public Health Institute reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(204 total reviews)

Melissa Stafford Jones

100% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Public Health Institute has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 204 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Public Health Institute employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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204 reviews
4.0
Sep 15, 2017

Wonderful people

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Pros

PHI is full of sincere commitment and integrity.

Cons

Funding in the public health arena can be tenuous, which causes transitions that can impede the strength and longevity of promising programs.

1.0
Aug 25, 2017

No oversight of program leadership

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Pros

Great benefits, generous retirement contributions, excellent Paid Time Off accrual rates, worthy mission, and passionate coworkers.

Cons

PHI programs are essentially autonomous and there is no real oversight of program leadership. Program leaders are technical experts but often lack the necessary training to effectively manage people. My former managers ignored PHI policies and procedures, were willfully ignorant of state labor law, and regularly invented new policies that only applied to particular members of staff, wth loop holes for management and specific "favorites." In the case of my previous program, one particular manager regularly bullied, belittled, and intimided members of support staff on a daily basis and repeatedly made unprofessional comments that were ignored by the program's PI, as well as PHI central. The environment at my former program became so toxic that I had no choice but to look for a new opportunity.

3.0
Jun 23, 2017

OK experience

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Pros

Good benefits - you get a transportation stipend, they contribute to retirement

Cons

Bureaucratic as with most large organizations

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