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Learning from your own experiences
Working in Public Health is full of opportunities to touch many lives. While it is most important to have sound technical knowledge on the subject that you are working in, it is equally essential to reflect back upon your past [...]
New beginnings
When I chose to pursue a master’s, I needed a program that would allow me to study while working full-time. Lakehead University’s Master of Public Health offers this flexibility. Studying and working full-time required a lot of sacrifices such as [...]
The full moon night and ride up the hill
“Mam, this is an urgent call from a health post few hours from where your team has set up the camp”, the very hasty voice on the call made me a little worried. It was a call from the health [...]
Falling into Public Health
In the UK, a specialist public health practice is a medical discipline, where you join a parallel specialist register. You can train also train as a consultant in public health, from a non-medical background. However, this is my journey into [...]
How finding vision gave me inspiration
Stepping out of my comfort zone and becoming a part-time optician during college opened my eyes to the vision needs of those living in my home state of Wisconsin and the many opportunities available in the field. Like every other [...]
All I want is power
One of the tasks required in preparation of completing my Master of Public Health practicum placement is selecting values I have for my life and career - I selected “power”. The choice of power as a value was one that [...]
FEATURED PUBLIC HEALTH BOOK
THE WISDOM OF WHORES
by Elizabeth Pisani
This controversial book addresses how sex and drugs have turned the global epidemic of HIV into a billion-dollar-a-year industry. Epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani takes a no-holdsbarred approach to finding out exactly why 40 million people are living with HIV and 28 million have already died of AIDS when we have the knowledge, the money, and the means to wipe out the disease in 90 percent of the world. Get a copy on Amazon.
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