Integrated Sciences Program Analysis

Growing up with a mother who is a nurse, I have been able to appreciate and understand the importance of public health. She taught me not only how crucial personal health is but also how important community health and prevention is. My mother raised me to have compassion and empathy for others as well. This rooted my interest in careers that can have high beneficial impacts on others’ lives, such as those under the field of public health.

The invaluable skills that I have gained and learned through my after school clubs, Future Business Leaders of America, (FBLA) and National Honor Society( NHS), has stirred up a desire in me to help my community and to make a difference in the lives of people, by majoring in the Public Health field. Through Public Health, I will help those in my community at large to live healthy lives; mentally, socially, physically and culturally. Healthcare is an essential need in life and is a great field that would allow me to make a difference.

As a well-rounded student, the RWU Honors Program appeals to me both academically and socially. Through hands-on experience, collaboration with others, and overcoming challenges, students like me find a way to face the world directly and accept the challenges that lay in front of them. Rich with history and tradition, Roger Williams puts their students in the forefront, expecting them to take on all the resources the institution has to offer.

During my undergraduate microbiology studies, I became exposed to the idea of population health vs individual health through courses such as “epidemiology” and “global issues in health services”. I then spent a semester abroad at the University of Wollongong studying population health in more depth through courses in “Health Promotion” and “Indigenous Community Development”. This experience opened my eyes to the potential impact of population level work and ultimately led to the decision to focus on broader reaching public health practice.

The American Public Health Association (APHA) is made up of 31 basic sections which represent key public health disciplines. Through these sections, members with mutual interests are able to combine efforts and develop scientific program content as well as policy papers in their areas of practice or areas where they are interested. In addition, these basic sections provide for social and professional networking, mentoring and career development. The sections are APHA’s key professional units and they help in promoting the mission and fulfilling the Association’s goals. Through these sections, a variety of opportunities for the involvement of the members, thus making a richer experience for the professionals who decide on interacting with the Association’s primary sections. In order to become an active member in this section, a person ought to be a current member of the Association and any professional who is already a member of the Association may become a section member (American Public Health

Twenty year old Queens, New York native, Edwin Torres is on his third (non consecutive) year at York college. While undecided about what he’d like to do after college (he’s the first to disclose he’s extremely easy going and lazy) he knows one thing. He’d like to graduate. Currently Edwin is working on a B.S. in environmental health science. EHS is the study of human disease in connection to the environment. For those that meant to google it and now won’t have to. Yep, his guy is looking to improve the quality of the earth and the people inhabiting it.

We as a class were given a variety of health subjects to choose from to undertake a research project that counted as a huge part of our grades. I picked the study of epidemiology to be the area I would focus on extensively for the next three months of that semester. This obviously meant that I had to read and learn a couple of books to get a clear idea of how I was going to present my idea and findings. As I read through some of these books, I really became intrigued. The aspects of global health issues, biostatistics and health policies to name a few really jolted me into considering this area of study as a potential future career choice, as oppose as to just a research project. I was really fascinated as I read and came across the range of issues that public health officials such as epidemiologists had to solve or were in the process of solving in inventive ways. I obtained a crucial but very methodical understanding of the very issues that is being faced in the world of health care today. Ever since this class came and went, I have been highly focused on public health issues through other classes and

Learning epidemiology at Rollins school of Public Health is essential for me to attain this goal. In short, this paragraph should assure the graduate admissions committee that you have matured during your

When I first arrived at UC Davis as an undergraduate, I was unaware of what global health was. Although my interests aligned with health topics, such as disease prevention and improving health literacy, I did not explore any other graduate degrees besides an M.D. However, my career plans changed when I joined a public health advocacy group called RIVER (Recognizing Illnesses Very Early and Responding). RIVER prioritized educating underserved populations in Davis and the Greater Sacramento area about how essential preventive care is to one’s health. Through my participation in the organization as a board member, I learned more about preventive care and applied that knowledge by teaching underprivileged communities about how to make healthier lifestyle changes through exercise and nutrition. This organization’s

This paper focuses on describing the BSPH interdisciplinary and cross-cutting competencies that comprises the frameworks of public health, communication in public health practices, diversity and culture, and professionalism. The frameworks of public health practices focuses on the prevention of diseases and the health of the various communities. Public health officials seek to conduct research to enhance prevention. Officials also focus on investigating the public health problem that allows them to detect and control infectious diseases that may affect the health of a population. Investigating the problems may also aid in determining the magnitude, scope, and the characteristics of a public health threat. Planning, implementing, and

Courses on perspectives in environmental health are designed to introduce public health professionals to basic environmental science concepts. Students learn how about the public health impacts of various environmental exposures and processes. Coursework on global public health issues covers standard topics, such as population growth and infant mortality, and global health topics, such as future public health trends that are impacting domestic conditions. Learning about public health advocacy prepares students to drive the transformation of relevant laws and

Luther College’s TRIO Program has helped me in tremendous amounts of ways. By being apart of their program I have had access to materials that have helped me throughout my first semester and that will be useful to me in the future. The biggest benefit the TRIO Program gave to me was access to a one on one tutor for Physiology. This was a class that I was struggling with the first half of the semester and most of my classmates who were struggling had to be in a group for their tutoring session. Therefore, I am very thankful that the TRIO Program was able to give me access to a tutor that helped me bring up my grade, which resulted into me getting into the nursing program. Other ways the TRIO Program has helped me is by providing me with some

From Vicki Kistler’s talk, I learned that Public Health overlaps with a lot of Health Science majors. Some majors that involve Public Health are IT, Pre-med, and undecided (basic science classes). The goal of Public Health is to respond, present, and help people live happy and healthy lives. Public Health also isn’t one major or discipline, it’s a philosophy. Some careers in the Public Health field are adoption, reducing mortality for infants, and being a lawyer who supports the Public Health Law. There are 48 health instructors out of 50 and there also isn’t a Public Health department in every county of Pennsylvania. In Allentown, there are two categories of Public Health: Personal (based on personal aspects/preferences) and Environment

I come from a small town in Oklahoma. We are a small but close community. While in this community, I had the chance to enroll in an Advanced Pre-Engineering program though my school. For this program, I went to our Technology Center. There I took advanced classes such as Bioengineering and AP Physics. This program was the smallest I had been involved with only 8 students, including me. During our first year in this program, we had some incredibly difficult projects. Most of these projects were team based which created challenges but also great experiences. The challenges we faced were determining who would be leader since there were several of us that enjoyed leadership responsibilities and others not doing their fair share. The good part

While the “white careerists” may love the land and have a connection with the people there, they can become frustrated if the health status of the population they are working with does not improve. This frustration can sometimes lead to racist or ethnocentric assumptions, where they feel that the Native Americans do not want to better themselves with the biomedicine that is offered to them (Kane & Kane 1972: 24). With the young practitioners who only serve for a short amount of time, they bring enthusiasm and a desire to understand the culture of the population in which they are serving. It is brought up that this may be due to the fact that they understand they have a short amount of time with the IHS and try to make the most of that time. However, although there is a drive to understand traditional etiologies and become acquainted with the community with these “two-year men,” often they are grossly underprepared to meet the needs of the community. They lack practical experience and have had little formal introduction to dealing with community groups (Kane & Kane 1972: