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2019-2020 TIPH Student Ambassadors
ASPPH Member Student Spotlight
Students at ASPPH member institutions are already impacting public health.
We Know Students Are Struggling With Their Mental Health. Here's How You Can Help ow.ly/xFme50Gc8vl
We Know Students Are Struggling With Their Mental Health. Here's How You Can Help
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Experts say taking care of your own wellbeing first will allow you to help your kids and students. You should also listen to their concerns and teach them tools to manage their anxieties.
In public health, in order to identify and intervene on disease events, we tend to look at a spectrum of variables. For example, the genetics, a person’s lifestyle behaviors, environment-built, natural, and social, or even the policies in place. Understanding how these factors individually and collectively affect health requires us to understand the location component to these exposures. Like epidemiology, location science is closely similar but differently distinct due to the emphasis on spatial patterns and relations. Although geospatial data and technology continues to rapidly evolve, these concepts are no stranger to public health efforts. Pioneers in the field, such as Hippocrates, John Snow, Louis Rene Villerme, and more have examined spatial data and have used them to inform decision-making. Health geography allows us to recognize the context and setting through a spatial lens from local to global in understanding many health outcomes. Location matters. Location is health!
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*Disclaimer* For the sake of space, this is a very condensed description; nonetheless, I wanted to start the week off sharing with you all my nonlinear path in public health!
While I was working toward securing my pre-requisites for nursing school, I was required to take a few public health courses- and was immediately hooked on the work being done around upstream STI/STD prevention and implementation using multi-level approaches to addressing these disparities. Based on this new insight, I shifted gears from my original plan and started getting involved with on-and off-campus activities and leadership roles, eventually doing applied research under one of the incredible faculty instructors. It was through these experiences that propelled me to pursuing an MPH with a goal of working toward fostering epidemiological and geospatial methods to addressing community inequity, related to sexual health disparities, gaps in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, and the complexities of neighborhood health.
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