During a field studies placement at Autism Speaks, Marianne Chen learns about the importance of building relationships with community partners to increase awareness about autism spectrum disorders.
Karla Gonzalez' field work with The Wellness Center takes her back to the former Historic General Hospital in LA for an opportunity to contribute to delivering comprehensive services to keep patients healthy and reduce health care spending.
For Jennifer Xiong, a first-generation Hmong American whose parents fled Laos in 1975, providing health and social resources to vulnerable Southeast Asian communities has personal meaning.
Through her internship with the Violence Prevention Coalition, Jenna Arzinger became interested in helping the formerly incarcerated reintegrate into society.
Sandhya Shimoga, a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management traces her interest in public health to her upbringing in a small college town in southern India where poverty and prosperity exist side by side.
The way Nigerian-born Nkem Chukwumerije sees it, the primary public health problem facing his home country is a lack of leadership on policy development and implementation.
Gift Wango, a student in the Health Policy and Management executive MPH program remembers the times during childhood when she had a firsthand view of the shortcomings of Kenya’s health care system.
Donglan Zhang studied health economics at Fudan University in Shanghai before coming to FSPH for her PhD. Zhang found the two countries face similar concerns, including lack of universal health coverage, health disparities and ever-increasing costs.
For as long as she can remember, Shemra Rizzo has loved math for its ability to make a difference in people’s lives. “While some people... love math for its intrinsic beauty, I like math as a tool to solve problems,” she says.
