Colorado School Of Public Health

If you would have told me ten years ago that I would be writing this essay and planning yet for another years into the future, part of me would have been surprised. Years ago I would have never envisioned myself going into the health field. Growing up I always heard stories from my parents and grandparents of how lucky I am to be alive and how thankful they were to the doctors and nurses. After hearing these stories for so many years it then made me realize that all I wanted to do was help people.

Growing up in an underserved community made me realize the blessing of a quality education and good physicians. Having faced an arduous medical diagnosis has given me the ability to look at things from a special perspective. Rocky beginnings in community college accompanied by time off from school allowed me to work fulltime

The healthcare sector offers a variety of professional opportunities that include pediatric, geriatrics, public policy and many other areas in which I hope to make a impact towards. I have always been intrigued by medicine and continue to gain more interest in public health. In the future, I desire to combine both medicine and public health by participating in an MD and MPH program. My experiences and education provide me with constant motivation in achieving my goals.

The summer of my freshman year I took a trip back to Ghana, my homeland. While I was there, I worked with some volunteer doctors at a local orphanage. My time was spent playing games with the children, helping then with their homework and just spending time with them. I assisted the doctors with a routine check-up for the children and even held the hand of a little girl while she was getting her shots. It was an enlightening experience that furthered my passion for

Actually, that’s not quite the right word. An epiphany is a moment of sudden clarity, but mine was anything but sudden. It rolled in slowly and started to unfold itself, like it was doing its morning stretch.

Walking through Louisiana in the middle of summer is no picnic. Not only is the temperature sweltering, but the mosquitos are ferocious. Every year my church sponsors a missionary trip down the Tigre Bayou to vaccinate at risk communities, and to educate population centers about the importance of exercise and diet. Although the United States has some of the best doctors in the world, we have many population centers that have little to no access to medical care, which places them at risk. The healthcare disparity in the U.S.A is egregious and unfortunately is a reality in rural America. I am passionate about not only healthcare disparity, but diseases that afflict at risk populations, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. The purpose of this personal essay is to communicate why I would like to study public health at Campbell University, how my past education has prepared me to be a public health professional, my reasons and motivation for enrolling in a public health program and my career plans upon completion of the public health program.

My unwavering interest in infectious diseases began in middle school when I read the book, The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston that intricately describes the Ebola virus. While the description of how the virus destroys the human body are unpleasant, this virus fascinated me. Consequently, in my spare time I read about other infectious diseases, such as cholera and tuberculosis, on Wikipedia and other web pages for my personal enjoyment. Years later, I participated in Princeton Model Congress in high school where I first learned about public health. Participants made mock congressional bills to be passed in a congress comprised of high school and college students in order to implement a national change. My mock bill advocated for the incorporation of HIV tests within annual physicals. The purpose of this bill was to ensure that more people became knowledgeable about their status and with this knowledge, HIV positive individuals can receive care faster and take proactive measures to prevent infecting others with this virus. As I researched various facts about the HIV epidemic and how HIV impacts communities in Washington, D.C., my interest in public health evolved even though I did not know of the official name, public health. At the time, I wanted to be a lawyer and averted from anything science or math related. Yet, I cared about my community and I wanted to make a difference. I rediscovered my interest in public health in college as a biology major.

The Public Health Associate Program would help me fulfill these goals by providing a unique on-the-job experience and competency development so that I could successfully fill a role in public health, management or community development in the future. In reviewing the program’s curriculum domains and competencies,

Choosing public health turned out to be an excellent choice for me at the time because I learned about all the different kinds of health fields I could specialize in. I also had the wonderful opportunity to take classes, such as Healthy U and Introduction to Philosophy and Medicine, which improved my understanding of the

My passion for teaching others has led me to ask many questions to my professors and tutors throughout my journey. I know that I will continue asking questions because we will always learn something new every day. That is why even though I have an undeniable passion for language, I would love to have the opportunity to learn what public health really is and how it benefits us as individuals. I currently work in a surgical center called Shammas Eye Medical Center as a medical assistant. I have learned through the various physicians and surgeons the importance of educating patients on prevention and management. Dr. John Shammas, head Surgeon of our facilities and a professor at the University of Southern California has taught its staff the value

My interest in Health Sciences started in 2013, my freshman year at Health Sciences High and Middle College (HSHMC). Prior to high school, I wasn’t sure what my passion is life was and every time someone would ask “What do you want to do when you grow up?” it was followed with a bow of the head and a shoulder shrug. As I moved into high school, I was offered an internship at SHARP Memorial Hospital and I decided that if I wanted to go into healthcare I would only know if I tried. My second internship at SHARP Mary Birch really started my love for health care and was the spark of a future career that I would make me smile when answering the aforementioned question. Health Occupations Students of America: Future Health Professionals has helped me work toward my goal in more ways than one.

Foundations of public health from my perspective is a great course to begin the Masters of Public Health program due to its broad spectrum of covering all areas of public health, networking opportunities, and to gain direction into a concentration. Due to the course being broad since it is covering many topics I hope to build a basic foundation in each different concentration to get a feel of the program and what to expect. Coming in from an undergraduate program and trying to adjust to the Master of Public Health program, I feel like the foundations in Public Health course is a good transition to ease into classes. The course will also freshen up my memory on current public health topics and issues. Aside from the transition and freshening

Amid a field trek to test a few items for her strategy for success, Bai saw the unclean surroundings of a healing facility and unsterile instruments that were being utilized at the season of labor. For Bai, this was this feels familiar, she was helped to remember the disease she endured when her first tyke was conceived, that had taken her a whole year to recuperate. "I recommended to Habib to consider maternal wellbeing as a territory of center and in 2009, we enlisted ayzh in the US," says Bai, about the choice to help establish a medicinal services item organization alongside her husband Anwar.

When I joined Science Olympiad in 7th grade, I had no idea I would find a topic so interesting that it may affect my career decision. But when I started doing Disease Detectives, a public health based event, everything changed. The dynamic, multifaceted study was very engaging.

Having learned so much through the courses offered in the MSc. program in Germany, I became more and more fascinated by the science of public health. I was impressed by its evidence driven, multidisciplinary approach and the variety and scope of sub-disciplines, along with its options for growth. I found public health to be an enthralling field of study which perfectly fits with my previous training in sociology and career ambitions. I have always dreamt of a career that focuses on improving the health of people through preventive programs and community participation to bring enduring solutions. My growing interest in public health led me to resign from the rural sociology program in Auburn University. However, the reason for resignation