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Student Voices: Why UW Global Health?

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    (Sunil Aggarwal) Global health is basically the next logical step to studying public health
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    I really see global health as kind of a human right to health for everybody. That's the sub-text.
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    (Becky Bartlein) Most people can agree upon that health is a human right and that um, it's something that goes beyond politics.
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    (Sunil) I want to see more health professionals actually take an active role in recognizing that
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    those rights are essential for health of our patients and the public health.
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    (Laura Demaster) I always knew that I wanted to get more into research, asking the questions of why instead of
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    providing more diagnostic answers, and I was really impressed with the pathobiology program specifically
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    because it allowed me to ask those basic science questions within the context of public health and global health.
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    (Linnet Masese) Things that attracted me to where I was working was because they had that recognition
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    and having done my research and things and talking to people, you know, and knowing how well placed UW was
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    I knew I was in the right place.
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    (Sunil) I wanted to have a career in medicine and medical research and then the added thing I've come into is
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    advocacy for patients and public health
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    and it's great to know that this school also encourages people to do that.
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    (Linnet) Once I'm done I'm hoping that I can go back to Kenya and find a place where I can do HIV/AIDS research.
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    (Laura) There are very few programs in the country that offer that nice combination of
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    basic science and public health and Pathobiology was one of them.
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    I think that attracts a lot of our students - kind of the unique balance of those two factors.
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    You can do hypothesis-driven research and ask important questions about
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    mechanisms in biology but in the context of infectious diseases of great public health importance.
Title:
Student Voices: Why UW Global Health?
Video Language:
English
Duration:
02:50

English subtitles

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