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Meet the Students of UM SPH
"Working with the faculty, students, and administrative staff has been a great and enlightening experience at UM SPH. With them, I've collaborated on an exciting project dealing with natural disasters and disease from a social perspective, expanded my knowledge of social and infectious disease epidemiology, and contributed to the ongoing legacy of PHSAD's annual Minority Health Conference, which provides pertinent minority health information to the community and public health professionals."
"I will be forever grateful for the opportunities UM SPH has given me. From being mentored by leaders in their respective fields to working on research projects that I am passionate about, I believe that my stay here has prepared me well for a career in International Health. I have also been able to work with some of the best and brightest students that I ever had the privilege to share a classroom with."
"My internship in Sault Ste. Marie, with the Intertribal Council of Michigan, made me more aware of how culture influences health. Like many other minorities, Native Americans tend to have a lot of health disparities--for example, they're more diabetic and more overweight. I am thinking about trying to get a job with the Indian Health Services. I"m definitely interested in promoting the health of Native Americans."
"As a Peace Corps volunteer to Cameroon, Central Africa ('97-98) and South Africa ('99-'01), I had my first exposure to innovative public health programs. Throughout both tours, I became convinced that a career in public health was exactly what I wanted. I chose the University of Michigan School of Public Health because I knew that my experiences would be valued by my colleagues and faculty members. I have gained the skills to become a better advocate and leader while promoting healthy solutions far beyond the scope of just the classroom."
"UM SPH offers great classroom training, but it is the experience in the field that solidifies my investment in public health. I was afforded the opportunity to do data collection in New Orleans on the PHAST trip over spring break. I have been challenged through experiences like this to face obstacles of public health in ways that make me more effective at practical application of the concepts and methods I learned in class."
"The best way to learn at SPH is to investigate. Read the literature with an open mind and carefully analyze what it is trying to tell you. Ask yourself, how can I best use this information? Evaluate your motives before you begin a research project. Always consider the community-based participatory approach in your work, and remember public health is interdisciplinary and there are multiple solutions for every health issue."
"I was drawn to HMP because of the interdisciplinary training offered and the richness of the available campus resources. There are many opportunities to gain research and analysis skills in your areas of interest. It"s fairly easy to network across the university and become connected with a team of mentors, experts in their fields, who want to work with you and help you succeed. UM SPH's alumni network is very strong. I was able to find out valuable information about the learning environment and faculty before my first visit on campus from an SPH alum in my hometown."
"I am studying Survival Analysis because I am fascinated with its theoretical depth, subtlety, and elegance, and also because of its immediate and profound implications in many aspects of our everyday life. For me, the Biostatistics department at Michigan represents the stimulating and enjoyable environment where I get the first-class training necessary to identify, understand, and solve the problems that I will face as a future biostatistician."
"I can honestly say that for my whole life I wanted to be a health professional. However, it wasn't until late in my undergraduate career that I learned the distinction between public health, medicine and social determinants of health. In pursuing my doctoral degree, I wanted to be in an academic setting that clearly understood this distinction, but yet at the same time prepared its students to be viable in such an interdisciplinary setting. UM SPH is just such a setting; for the past four years, I have had the opportunity to be connected with national and international leaders in these health related fields."
"My interest in understanding how various levels of influence contribute to an individual's or a community's physical, mental, and social well-being brought me to UM SPH. I believe my training has been greatly enhanced by strong curriculum and faculty, and also by the emphasis on interdisciplinary learning and collaboration. I know I will be prepared to develop meaningful interventions that enhance a population's quality of life through the reduction of oppressive social conditions."
"One of my dreams is to establish a school of public health in Saudi Arabia--we don't have one yet. My gold standard will be our school in Michigan.... I believe geographical and political borders should never be an issue when it comes to health. "
"My understanding of the complexity of our society has expanded incredibly as a result of my experience at the University of Michigan. I came to the SPH with a desire to learn strategies and methods to improve the health and well-being of African American communities. I have combined my study of health behavior and health education with an interdepartmental concentration in reproductive and women's health, while simultaneously learning about social welfare policy with a concentration in community and social systems at the School of Social Work. I see on a daily basis how interdisciplinary public health is, and I now feel well prepared and truly motivated to effect change."
"I have worked in the slums of Delhi and in a poor rural region of India. In developing countries, people realize that life is about relationships. Rich or poor, we"re all in one little water body—-and we need to understand these relationships in order for life to make sense. I applaud the School of Public Health"s increasing focus on global health. One has to recognize that the policies that are developed in America affect the rest of the world, so one needs to know the rest of the world."
"As a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, I helped develop water and sanitation systems for a small fishing community. I found that I could construct cleaner water systems-—it"s very basic engineering—-but I didn"t have the training to fully understand and provide people with education on how their environment affects their health. There"s the technology side, but you also have this health education need. Public health was the bridge to link the engineering with the people. That"s when I found out what public health really is."
"One thing I like about studying here at the University of Michigan is that I have a lot of learning opportunities outside the classroom. I have been able to work in various research projects, dealing with breast cancer, prostate cancer, and bioinformatics. And there are many different seminars and workshops presented by world-renowned researchers from Michigan or other universities." |
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