Profiles in Public Health
Results:
Melanie Colombo
Public health is the interdisciplinary practice of ensuring the overall well-being of populations. It’s about creating healthier environments, regardless of one's socioeconomic status, race, or ethnicity. With the use of data and evidence to inform decision-making and improve health outcomes. To me, public health is personal. It’s about protecting the health of our families, friends, and communities. I’m passionate about building a future where everyone has the opportunity to live a long and healthy life.
Mirabel Fizzano
Public Health represents the desire to help the greater public population. It includes professionals from all walks of life that come to the table with various sets of skills in order to analyze health-related problems and create informed solutions. I think that Public Health provides awareness, advocacy, and an understanding of health outcomes that surround us in our communities and in our own lives.
Chandrika Ganduri
Public health means many things to me. I think it is incredible that public health is everywhere, even though people may not realize it. From seatbelts to vaccines to gun violence prevention, public health is what keeps our society running. It is special because it focuses on prevention and promotion, which is different than the conventional medicine we often see. Public health professionals work to ensure that people can maintain healthy lifestyles without needing the constant treatment of diseases. I think public health is important now, more than ever.
Jones Asiegbu
Public health is life! It is the relentless pursuit of health, equity, and justice for all regardless
of their background and socioeconomic status, or zip code. It is the intersection of a Venn
diagram where compassion, science and community meet.
Neelam Mishra
I strongly believe Public Health is about addressing systemic health disparities and ensuring equitable access to resources, enabling every individual, regardless of their circumstances, to lead a healthier and more fulfilling life. Public health extends beyond disease prevention to encompass mental, emotional, and physical wellness, fostering environments that support overall well-being.
Coming from Nepal, I have seen the profound effects of health inequities firsthand. These experiences, combined with my role as a senator for the College of Health and now as Student Body President at Idaho State University, have shaped my understanding of public health as a holistic discipline.
Kaila Comerie
To me, public health is investing in, understanding, and advocating for communities, so that we can work towards health equity for all. Public health is bridging gaps and removing barriers so that underserved populations are able to access all the care, education, and resources they need to live healthy and fulfilled lives.
Jesus Pizano
Public health is the foundation of daily living. It is present in every aspect of our environment, from the physical environments we interact with to the social structures we navigate. For me, public health means establishing basic measures that ensure community wellness. For instance, providing safe spaces, accessible preventative care, and reliable health education to promote overall health. Public health is a shared responsibility, one that belongs to all of us, not just agencies or professionals. It’s part of the world around us, in our infrastructure, social norms, and policies. It brings people together in a collective commitment to everyone’s well-being. At its heart, public health should be universal, ensuring that everyone, no matter who they are or where they come from, has fair and equitable access to health resources. It’s about building a society where we can all thrive and have the opportunity to live healthy lives.
Devin Valdes
Public health, to me, means empowering communities to voice their own needs and amplifying those voices with realistic, evidence-based interventions. It’s about building genuine relationships and promoting holistic, interdisciplinary solutions that address each community’s unique health challenges and strengths.
Holly Plackemeier
Public health, to me, is a calling to serve your community. Public health professionals work hard every day so people can live healthier, fuller lives. And I'm very proud to be one of them.
Katherine Smith
To me public health can best be described by the following Franklin Roosevelt quote: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little"
Preeti Moorthy
Public health is better health education, and prevention of disease.
Marissa Singer
To me, public health means not only investing in health solutions, but in systemic repair to eliminate health inequities.
Shilpa Rajagopal
Public health means working collaboratively and holistically to understand and address the multi-dimensional issues that affect our health, safety, and well-being.
Ally Hucek
Public health means prevention and population to me. I like the idea of focusing on prevention on a population-wide scale to improve health outcomes.
Monica Turchyn
Public Health means making a practical difference to those who need it most.
Bryanda Amillano
To me, public health entails empowering the voices of the unheard, surfacing often overlooked issues, and ensuring equity for all.
Ruby Hernandez
Public Health is the opportunity to give a helping hand and ensure a better quality of life for everyone.
Franny Chung
Public health utilizes population data to influence policies, lifestyles, and medical treatments for the well-being of people and their communities. This encompasses many sectors of industry and facets of life, which is why I find public health so engaging and inspiring!
Grace Ratcliff
Our health is intricately woven into the fabric of our lives, shaped by countless factors including our lifestyle choices, environments, and the broader systems in which we exist. Public health plays a vital role in recognizing and addressing these multifaceted influences.
Atia Khan
Public health means advocating for communities, both locally and globally, in pursuit of health equity.
Krisna Patel
Public health to me means having the opportunity to provide equitable care and access to basic needs.
Christian Schulz
Public Health is our chance to better understand, protect, and promote the health of everyone.
Caroline Rodriguez
Public health connects all people through building community and working toward health equity.
William Hutson
Public health is a way of bridging knowledge and experience from many disciplines and frameworks to address the most pressing health issues.
Mackenzie Goodman
At its core, public health is health for all. Public health serves to promote a healthy life by addressing disparities and implementing soultions that ensure equitable health outcomes for all.
Faith Angus
Public Health is dedication too alleviating all barriers to care and promoting equity and access for all.
Amrita Sidhu
Public health, to me, embodies a holistic approach to safeguarding and enhancing the well-being of communities. Public health isn't just about treating individual cases but about understanding and addressing the broader determinants that influence health outcomes. It's about promoting health equity, preventing diseases, and empowering individuals to make informed choices.
Sacheen Lampert
Public health encompasses a diverse range of concepts. However, it is important to me because of the capacity to partner with organizations to uncover the root cause of health disparities and create initiatives to enhance the overall wellness of community members.
Rose Antoine
To me, public health is the usage of knowledge, programs, systems, and power to improve and secure the health of all.
Jada Smith
To me, public health means fostering the well-being of all people through proactive measures that prioritize prevention and equity. Additionally, I feel that public health centers ethics and aims to shift the focus of our healthcare system from reactive "sick care" to holistic healthcare that addresses the underlying social determinants of health.
Kennedy Sawicki
To me, public health is about creating a safe and healthy environment for the community. This can be done is many different ways, which is why I love public health so much! Personally, I enjoy creating safe and healthy communities through health education, specifically on public health genetics programs, but also LGBTQ+ health, and infectious diseases.
Krystin Sinclair
Public Health is community centered policy to ensure that everyone has access to resources needed to maintain health and wellness.
Molly Grassi
Public health is the future. It is rooted in identifying disparities, addressing upstream determinants, and embracing prevention. The future of better health for all is a strong public health workforce that we must engage now.
Kelsey Green
As a biracial woman, I deeply value public health because it can empower me to craft a more inclusive and equitable world, one that resonates with individuals who share my identity and appearance.
Aparna Mangadu
Public health is the field that ties in medicine, policy, health education, and many other areas of study to support the common goal of achieving health equity. To me, public health is a space where people from various different backgrounds can come together and work on tasks that will improve human health and quality of life outcomes.
Lindsay Strickland
Public health is a complex and extensive field that aims to improve health outcomes on a population level by education, understanding and preventing disease, and promoting positive health behaviors.
Alison Clayshulte
Public health is about equitably informing populations about all aspects of good health. Public health is important for making sure that everyone has the access, care, and ability to thrive.
Srikrithi Krishnan
Public health means fighting for important rights like accessible and quality healthcare. Public health means creating health equity. Public health means educating the public to make informed healthy decisions.
Jess Stein
Public health is social justice. It is about implementing positive change in our communities by focusing on justice and health equity. Public health reminds us that the health of one of us is connected to the health of all of us.
Linda Calvo Kimbell
Public health is everything. It’s an opportunity to make a positive impact for our community and our country.
Stacie Shropshire
To me, public health means making a difference in communities by improving health outcomes and reducing inequities.
Kate Gershwin
Public health promotes the fundamental belief that health is a human right. In practice, public health practitioners work to ensure that everyone has access to the resources (physical, social, environmental, etc.) they need to achieve optimal health and wellbeing.
Daniel Lane
Public health is about improving the lives of everyone. It is giving a voice to the voiceless and educating people on the importance of every aspect of life on not just personal health but global health.
Igor Vouffo
Public health to me is why the world still spins, it's the reason we are able to live how we live, and the reason we will continue to live even better.
Rooshna Mohsin
Public health, to me, means prioritizing efforts to ensure the well-being of communities. It encompasses preventing illness, promoting health equity, and addressing health disparities. Public health isn't just about preventing diseases; it's about building environments that allow everyone the opportunity to lead a healthy life.
Tashfia Jilu
Public health is a commitment to ensuring that every individual, regardless of their background or circumstances, has the opportunity to attain the highest level of health possible. It's about recognizing and addressing the systemic factors that contribute to health disparities and actively working to dismantle those barriers.
Nandini Rangan
Public health, to me, is everything. It is not only in everything we do on a daily basis, but it is also the cornerstone to living a healthy life. We must continue to advocate for policies and infrastructure that protect public health in every community globally so everyone can have a healthy life.
Sophia DiOrio
To me, public health encompasses efforts to protect and improve the well-being of communities through preventive measures, health education, and policy initiatives aimed at promoting overall health and preventing disease.
Alisamarie Yiatras
Public health to me is about sustainability of society and working to create a world where there is health equity and accessibility to all.
Carly Williamson
To me, public health is serving communities, giving voices to the underserved, and promoting health.
MegAnn Smith
I often find myself saying, "public health is everything". To me, public health is looking out for the health and wellness of every living thing on the planet and understanding the symbiosis of these relationships.
Tamara Telles, MPH
Michelle Nguyen
Public health, to me, is the fundamental foundation of a compassionate and healthy society. It embodies the collective commitment to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of all individuals in our community, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, or background. At its core, public health is not just about treating diseases, but also preventing them from occurring in the first place. Public health also means ensuring that everyone has equal and equitable access to the resources and opportunities needed to live healthy and happy lives.
Keith Hardaway
Public Health is everywhere and everything. This is something I have come to learn throughout my MPH experience and nursing school experience. The relationships we make, the decisions we make, the activities we do is all public health. By doing things that keep us happy and healthy and vice versa means we're participating in public health whether we think we are or not. Public Health is a need and everyone needs it.
Taylor Lang
To me, public health means working together across all disciplines to address health disparities and ensure healthy living is attainable for all.
Jeneatha Marshall
Public health to me is the continuous fight for health equity and justice to ensure that as many people as possible are able to achieve health, safety and wellbeing.
Brad Wang
Public health is a movement that incorporates knowledge and expertise from all disciplines to create impacts that will last for generations.
Lala Fadila
To me, public health embodies collaboration at its core. It's about bringing together diverse expertise, resources, and communities to safeguard and promote the well-being of everyone, ensuring that no one is left behind. It's the collective effort to address health challenges, prevent diseases, and enhance the quality of life for all members of society.
Lauren Morales
Public Health means to support and improve the health of all populations and communities. It is understanding the various intersections in health and creating community wide solutions.
Sydney Bond
I love public health because of its focus on cross-collaboration and the endless possibilities it provides. In the future, I plan to work as a midwife and family nurse practitioner and look forward to working with communities and professionals across all disciplines to promote holistic health. Public health challenges the status quo, and I look forward to joining the charge.
Pei-En Chen
Public health, to me, encompasses the collective efforts aimed at promoting and protecting the health and well-being of communities and populations. It involves a multidisciplinary approach that addresses various factors influencing health, including social, environmental, economic, and behavioral determinants.
Kayla Giglia
Public health to me means using evidence-based practices to improve the health of populations and the environment which they live in, while also taking action to address the social determinants of health.
Katherine Brown
Public health means doing the hard work to heal the world. In a society that values treatment, public health values an upstream approach and preaching prevention!
Eric Shwartsman
Public health to me is an opportunity to increase access to health care services for people with unique needs. It functions as a medium to achieve health equity and reduce health disparities, whether by race, gender, socioeconomic status or other factors. To me, public health serves as a connector in the health care industry by focusing on community needs, resources, and priorities as core to developing health care solutions.
Lois Dankwa
Public health to me is an opportunity to increase access to health care services for people with unique needs. It functions as a medium to achieve health equity and reduce health disparities, whether by race, gender, socioeconomic status or other factors. To me, public health serves as a connector in the health care industry by focusing on community needs, resources, and priorities as core to developing health care solutions.
Patrice Lewis
Public health is a multidisciplinary area focused at promoting healthy behaviors, health equity and disease prevention among populations in order to improve the quality of life for persons in society.
Katherine Noss
For me, public health is about prevention. Upstream approaches can preserve health, save money, and prevent suffering. This is especially true with interventions supporting young children and their parents.
José Antonio Marín Rodriguez
Public health isn't just a field of study, it's a driving force for positive change. It's about proactively building a healthier future, where prevention takes center stage.
Tevin Mathew
Public health is a vehicle for social justice that, when promoting health equity, can propel all people around the world to live their healthiest lives where they can thrive and feel safe.
Shivangi Shah
Public health means striving for everyone's well-being through prevention, equity, and community collaboration. It's about promoting health and addressing societal needs proactively.
Emma Lavilles
Public health, to me, means providing communities and population groups equity, exploring the social determinants and promoting health.
Filimin Niyongabo
Public health means everyone being able to experience good health as a result of stewarding their environment. I believe our health is influenced by the quality of the environment we live in.
Neave Garland
Public health is about safeguarding the well-being of our communities, ensuring that every individual has the opportunity to thrive. It means advocating for accessible healthcare, regardless of one's background or circumstances. Public health is personal because it's about the people we love and care for, and our collective future.
Aleksandar Stevanović
Although there are various definitions of public health, I perceive it as a viewpoint that enables us to examine and assess any action with wider societal repercussions. Public health is a set of guiding principles that we can always utilize to evaluate the sustainability of our personal and collective growth.
Paulina Dera
Public health is everything around us and matters in our everyday life. That's why I want to spread awareness about it.
Karl F. Conyard
Public health to me means more than just protecting the public’s health but providing ample opportunities for populations to learn, grow and put steps in place to enhance their own health outcomes.
Bridget Morrison
Christina Chac
Public Health is everything and everywhere. From having access to paved sidewalks to clean drinking water, everything we do affects our individual health and the health of our communities that we live in.
Taneisha Christie
Public health is maintaining the health of the population. It involves advocating and creating policies to eliminate inequalities and advance global health.
Dominique Munroe
Public Health is a unique field that distributes knowledge and empowers communities to improve health and prevent disease.
Bria-Necole Diggs
Public health means recognizing the interconnectedness of our health and the health of those around us. It means working collaboratively to create equitable access to resources and opportunities that promote healthy behaviors, environments, and outcomes.
Olivia Rajpathy
Public health is a measure of social responsibility and accountability. It underscores the idea that we all have a role to play in creating healthier communities.
Alexandra Ruth
Public health to me is an opportunity to level the playing field in health equity through research and informed health policy.
Simone Pierre
Public health is one the most important subject areas of any country. It encompasses everything; a person's environment, relationships, occupation, the services that are available and much more.
Martina Michael
Public health is the bridge that connects medicine, rights, and law to the community.
Aurora Rousseau
Public health is creating equitable access to resources and education that can help inform health decisions and provide healthcare.
Aidan Davis
Public health to me is a way for me to help build and protect the communities that I care about.
Diana Nicole Felipe
Public health to me is garnering the information to know how to help people to be happy and healthy regardless of their background.
Catie Kaliszewski
Public health is an interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to understanding the distribution of diseases, systemic challenges, and factors that can impact the population.
Grace Hall
Public health to me is an area where communities and professionals can learn in a protected environment about health, both at the community level and for every individual.
Niccole Smith
Public health is connecting with communities and promoting health equity.
Cody Ingle
Public health is advocacy. Whether we are designing a research study to look at the effects of negative health outcomes of population groups, advising policy work, or evaluating organizational programs, we are advocating for better health outcomes in our communities.
Sydney Ma
Public Health is an ongoing conversation that brings together intersectional perspectives to create equitable health opportunities for all, regardless of race, identity, gender, socioeconomic status, or other social determinants of health.
Caroline Arias
Public health is a team sport and labor of love to make the world a better place. It is a forward-leaning field anchored to the pursuit of health equity, prevention, collaboration, and systems-level thinking.
Ranya Marrakchi El Fellah
Public health means taking a proactive approach to promoting and protecting the health of entire communities, with a focus on prevention rather than just treatment of diseases.
Leo Wackler
Public health to me means being able to address health challenges, focusing not just on individual health outcomes, but also on the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health at a population level.
C.J. Hill
Public health sits at the intersection of medicine, policy, social justice, and environment. Public health work is the means by which society can be improved as a whole.
Ashtyn Nichols
Public health is really a collaborative effort to improve the life of every person.
Meredith Denney
Public health to me is about inclusivity and providing the best service-oriented care for the health and well-being of everyone.
Kristen Gwaltney
Public health is the intersection of health and overall wellness, improving the quality of life on the population/community level.
Cristina Gomez
Public health to me is helping thousands of people in the workplace from hazards that lurk in the workplace.
James Kinchen
Public health is a field that works towards a brighter future everyday at the intersection of many health disciplines while focusing on the health of populations.
Jacqueline Clabeaux
Public health is about bringing different populations within communities together to create a happy, safe, and healthy environment for all members to experience.
Nina Diamond
Public health is the field of study that gives a voice to everyone, specifically those who need to be heard the most.
Ifunanya Nwabueze
Public health is a multifaceted and interdisciplinary field aimed at enhancing population health outcomes while promoting the fundamental principle that health is a human right, irrespective of race, ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status.
Sherry Weaver-Morales
Public health is ensuring that individuals, communities, and populations in all cultures worldwide remain healthy and obtain the health care and resources needed to sustain life.
Rebecca Foss
Public health connects people and communities to promote health, safety, and well-being of the overall population. It brings us together for the common good of the communities we are part of.
Amber Nieves
Public health provides communities with the language and knowledge to make decisions about their own health and well-being.
Kyli Patterson
Public health is prevention in action! Public health workers aim to prevent disease, disability, and death through interventions targeted to specific groups.
Adam Aasen, MPH
Yididya Amha, MPH
Jessica Bell-Johnson, MPH
Makala D. Carrington, MPH
Kathleen Cunningham, MPH
Allycia Kleine, MPH
Deana Li, MPH
Joseph Madden, MPH
Shilpi Misra, MPH
Angela Monahan, MPH
Christine Phyathep, MPH
Leigh Ellyn Preston, DrPH, MPH
Marieh Scales, MPH
Mary Harbert Stromberg, MPH
Andrea Vilorio, MPH, CHES
Kendra Wilson, DrPH, CHES, CPH
Rachel Zahn, MPH
Joana Fernandez
Public Health is the everyday lived experiences of an individual and how those experiences holistically contribute to that same individuals wellbeing.
Maggie Pustinger
Public health is the prevention of illness or injury through the promotion of healthy life choices, prevention research, and education.
Savannah (Savi) Brenneke
Public health is the pursuit of justice in the face of unjust institutions and systems that act against the health of populations.
Yve Francois
Public Health is mom where medicine is dad; you don't know or appreciate how much behind-the-scenes work happens until mom goes on vacation.
SriLasya Reddy
Public health, to me, is a platform to advocate for those who need it and an inclusive community where people are accepted and valued regardless of their race, sexuality, and gender.
Pranav Kapoor
Public Health is the link that connects people from all different backgrounds to opportunities that enable them to improve their health.
Omkari Kunam
Public Health is serving a community as a whole to promote good health based on the specific needs of that specific community in a way that is culturally appropriate.
Olivia Zarella
Public health is an opportunity to make a change to multiple of aspects of society.
Noor Ali
Public Health, to me, is the collaboration of the art and science of medicine.
Nikita Wagle
Public health to me is an opportunity to impact several lives at a time.
Michelle Delgado
To me, public health means promotion of health prevention while taking into consideration health inequities and social justice.
Marshae Nickelberry
To me, Public Health is all about people and the ways in which the world around them impacts their overall well-being.
Maddie Kasimanickam
Public health is the science of improving the health and safety of communities and populations through education, policymaking, and research.
Liz Lusk
Public health is the practice of assisting our people and communities in living a good quality of life.
Lauren Kauffman
Public Health is the intersection of several disciplines - biology, statistics, psychology, social sciences, and communications, just to name a few – with the purpose of positively impacting health in the larger population; health, in this context, includes not just the prevention and treatment of disease, but also the larger goal of promoting overall physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being.
Lauren Bell
Public Health to me is the means to give people the access and the tools to live a healthy and successful life, which includes health education, access to healthcare services, and adequate, thorough health care.
Laura Bryson
Public health is perspective from which to study, understand, and improve the complex ways people interact with their self, community, environment, and policies that influence multidimensional health, from the individual level to the global population.
Larry Warner
To me, public health is the combination of social and healthcare services and workforces which strive to create healthy communities; prevent and respond to illness and injury; and promote health equity.
Kimberly McNally
Public health is a commitment to value the health of others and the environment.
Johnny Barba
Public health, to me, can be epitomized by throwing a small stone into still water such that the ripple effects of one seemingly small action can reach out and touch all aspects of the shore--that is, all the many lives around us.
Jacquita Johnson
Public health is social justice, an avenue to achieve equity for us all.
Hannah Aaron
Public health is the way to understand the complex factors and determinants that make up the health of populations and communities.
Erin Manalo-Pedro
Public health is the ongoing, organized effort to develop environments for all people to feel whole, including identifying and changing conditions in conflict with this goal.
Emily Bradford
Public health is broad term used to describe a collection of efforts to identify and address areas of health concern in the community.
Liz Lusk
Public health is the practice of assisting our people and communities in living a good quality of life.
Eliza Steere
Public health to me is protecting communities from negative health outcomes through promoting positive health behaviors and lifestyles.
Destany Ware
Public Health is the advocacy for and dedication to other's wellbeing in a healthy matter, to ensure the healthiest life for oneself and one's community.
Danielle Harmon
Public health to me is the overall initiative to better the health of our communities and population through science-based research, health promotion programing and education.
Dan Popkin
Public health is a multidisciplinary collaboration to improve health on both an individual, as well as a population level.
Cheyanne Busso
Public health is the study, promotion, and advocacy of all health matters, including mental and physical health as well as the societal factors that influence safety and well-being.
Carlos Orellana Garcia
Public health is the science that promotes prevention and safety of improving the health of communities through education, advocacy, and research for disease prevention at an individual and population level.
Calli Laskowski
Public health is the continued, rigorous work to protect and promote EVERYBODY'S health.
Bryce Takenaka
To me, public health is about preventing and addressing upstream determinants that cause inequities across populations.
Anushree Gade
Public health, to me, means interdisciplinary collaboration in order to enhance overall health by identifying gaps and inequities in the healthcare delivery system.
Aneeka Ratnayake
Pubic health to me means optimizing the full spectrum of society's wellbeing in an evolving global context.
Albana Ochaeta
Public Health is a field that aims to improve health outcomes in populations--whether locally or globally--through intersectoral collaboratives focused on prevention, education, and research.
Rajrupa Ghosh
Public health is a way to improve health, preventing disease, and promoting a healthy lifestyle among the population.
Emily Gordon
Public health is a collection of innovative ideas to improve varying aspects of life for populations of people.
Kelli Gribben
Public health is an interdisciplinary field focused on advancing the health of our communities through research and practice.
Samantha Griffin
Public health is about recognizing and breaking down barriers to give everyone a right to health.
Walae Hayek
Public health is a multidisciplinary field dedicated to achieving health equity and preventing disease by addressing the social determinants of health.
Christopher Hopkins
I see public health as an interdisciplinary force that aims to improve health and wellness by building up community resources thereby improving the overall health of the nation.
Catherine Cortez
Public health is a committed, collaborative effort to investigate and address the “who, what, where, when, why, and how” of achieving optimal health & well-being across all populations.
Tyler Beauregard
As a clinician, public health is what we do to promote health and well-being for more than one person; if it was only for one person, it would be clinical practice.
Linda Chyr
Public health protects and improves individual, family, community, and population health and well-being through rigorous science and advocacy.
Amber Deckard
Whether it be through advocacy, programming, or by simply lending a helping hand, public health to me is about addressing the barriers and needs of a population in order to enable them to have optimal physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health.
Brigitte Dietz
Public health is the collaboration of social and scientific disciplines to facilitate improved population health and happiness, at any and every level possible.
Katarina Domitrovich
Public health, to me, describes a public system--an overarching umbrella--which is made up of specialists trained in specific areas with the common goal: to keep the people it serves, including the environment and all its creatures, safe, and efficiently running without prejudice, without hate, without political bias, and with a constant eye on how we can do better, be better, and prepare better in the future.
Alexis Donaldson
Public health takes a scientific and data-driven approach to ensuring the mental and physical health and safety of the public.
Relicious Eboh
Public health is the intersection between society and health to aid in preventing diseases.
Ashley Fenton
Public health, for me, is promoting and educating individuals from different backgrounds and communities on health behaviors and wellness to prevent illness and injury.
Alexandra Fox
To me, public health is about bridging the gaps between healthcare and health equity through education and patient empowerment.
Deanna Gatling
Public health is a collaboration of concepts and ideas that are the foundation for building strong, healthy communities.
Teace Markwalter
Public Health is protecting the health and wellbeing of humans, animals, and the environment.
Ashley Vaughn
Public health means acknowledging the interconnectedness of our world and using it to address the root of the inequalities in health outcomes that we see today.
Evelyn Zavala
Public health is almost everything around us, it is what keeps all of us healthy and well!
Gen Zhu
Public health is to improve the health and wellness of people through scientific research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and various programs and services.
Joshua Castro
Public Health is a multisectorial approach toward protecting and prolonging life by improving the quality of health of all people and their communities.
Sydney Chaves
Public health is challenging inequities to create a better life and health for the greater good.
Priyanka Shrestha
Public Health is health that we decide to choose for ourselves as a community, a country, and the world itself.
Madison Snitker
Public health is the effort to improve and protect the health of all people to ensure they have the knowledge and tools to live their healthiest lives.
Anthony Surace
Public health means ensuring everyone has a fair chance at living a happy, healthy, and productive life.
Vincent Varvaro
Public health to me is the goal of achieving a more healthy population, both nationally and internationally - through policy, research, and medicine.
Andrea McGowan
Public Health is the recognition that solving our nations health crises require holistic, contextual, and comprehensive approaches executed by interdisciplinary teams.
Marcus McKay Jr.
Public health is the interdisciplinary field of study whose sole purpose is to investigate, inform, and intervene on any subject that causes harm to the health of the mass population.
Amelia Metcalf
Public Health is advocacy for the health of all; the advancement of science results in improved population health and overall quality of life.
Amanda Mohammed
Public health is about preparedness and incorporating a health equity lens to promote healthy outcomes for all.
Taylor Munro
Public health focuses on the health inequities and injustices that disproportionately affect people and strive to improve the health and well being of those communities, the environment, and social structures.
Athena Nguyen
Public health is working towards a more just, sustainable, and humane world.
Nihmath Nasiha Pattamaniar Sultan Maliq
Public Health is a field that strives to ensure complete well being of the population at large (all people without discrimination).
Brittney Peterkin
Public health is the practice of the educating communities and promoting prevention methods to improve the health outcomes locally and globally.
Alyssa Rentuza
Public health to me is not just the social, economic, judicial, medical, and biological factors that contribute to individual and community well-being, but also finding where we can contribute to and bolster the systems that support this well-being.
Jen Roux
To me, public health is the opportunity to extend humanity towards others and connect individuals, community and populations together through shared compassion and recognized interdependence.
Gabrielle Gussin
Public health describes a dynamic field that engages people from many different disciplines to understand, address, and intervene on the complex drivers of human health and disease.
Ana Francisca Soares de Castro Mendes
I believe that every day is a rewarding experience because I have the opportunity to learn and work with brilliant people in several areas.
Marija Aleksandraityté
Public health has led me to express my desire to help society be healthier and more active.
Vina Himmatus Sholikhah
Public Health is about protecting health and improving quality of life for all humans using different disciplines through collaboration among public health professionals, government, community organization and the private sector.
Sergio Alves
Public health refers to empowering and educating people to promote healthy lifestyles, in all forms, and prevent illness in a patient-centered manner as well as at a community level with the purpose of improving their quality of life.
Smitimedha Das
People typically choose public health, when they are keenly interested in helping others and improving society.
Jorge E Vilches
For me, Public Health means the better approach to understand and respond to health in the communities because this discipline considers all factors that could be determinant in health status, including and beyond the healthcare system.
Aibatyr Iskazin
Public health, as for me, is taking care and responsibility for the people around us.
Jeffrey Zen Liu
Public health, to me, is equity and equality. I believe that all people should have access to affordable healthcare regardless of economics, race, or other issues.
Emily Houston
Public Health is behind-the-scenes efforts to prevent disease and injuries and improve quality of life.
Marta Moniz
Public health ends and begins with people and it’s always for them that all matters are or should be directed.
Nan Chen
Public health is an area focused on dealing with issues associated with the protection and promotion of community health which involves sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
Su Pei Khoo
To me, health is a basic human right and public health is a dynamic field of study which aims to improve health and well-being of the population.
Blessed Chetachi Egbuchulam
Public Health affords the opportunity to reach the unreached, thereby impacting lives and ensuring that people don't become victims of diseases that can be prevented.
Khawla Nasser AlDeen
To me, public health is the art of change-making to create equitable opportunities of health flourishing for all.
Pedro Villela Chavez
I am passionate for Global Health and my love for this area of study has taken me to organizations such as The United Nations and the World Bank.
Bryan Buckley
It will be important for the next generation to translate the amazing stuff we are doing in public health in a way that gets government leaders attention and promotes investment in a robust public health infrastructure.
Joshua Yudkin
I am very interested in cardiometabolic diseases and believe they are all the biggest public health threat.
Lucas Buyon
I'm currently focusing my dissertation on leveraging new ways to use genomic data to inform malaria epidemiology, vaccine development, and policy.
Haley Greene
I aspire to improve infectious disease reporting and control efforts in developing countries…
Puja Shah
My concentration is Epidemiology and I'm interested in utilizing data analytics to streamline screening and surveillance systems, specifically for vulnerable and underserved populations.
Ally Siegler
My time as a VISTA solidified my interest in community work and environmental/population health, especially when it comes to food access.
Man-fang Liang
Public health is a science with a variety of specialties, an aggregate of individuals and knowledge. No one can be excluded from public health. Through research and practice of interventions of public health practitioners, population health can be improved from all aspects of life.
Alyssa Na
I hope that in my future role as an health administrator, I can help develop and implement initiatives and interventions that promote better practices on a patient- and community-level.
Thanh Nguyen
I have many interests in public health, however the main two interests I’d have to pinpoint is in oral health and hospital associated infections.
Samraat Sexena
I have a passion for working in local communities and am striving towards being a better health educator.
Haley Delgado
I think that as the medical field approaches a personalized perspective, public health approaches and interventions should consider this as well.
Micaela Sandoval
One issue that's very important to me is diversity in public health.
Ashlee Nelson
I believe that if we focus on housing/quality of living conditions at a global level, many other issues would start to self-correct a bit or, at the very least, help to narrow the scope of what the next steps could be.
Lisa Strauss
My passion and interests relating to what I believe is one of the biggest public health threats facing the world today is that of vaccine hesitancy and antibiotic/antimicrobial resistance.
Michael Gonzalez, Jr.
One of the biggest challenges facing public health is fully achieving and maintaining social and environmental justice.
Abdullah Shihipar
I am in the generalist concentration, with a focus on overdose prevention and harm reduction.
Lindsey Tolman
My hope is to remedy these beliefs and work toward a more educated (and vaccinated) general population.
Steven Burton
Being able to work together in a setting that utilized teamwork and allowed me to significantly impact patients lives while I worked in a pediatric Emergency Department was the most rewarding experience of my career so far.
Tyler Walsh
The biggest public health threat that we face moving forward is the increase in vaccine preventable diseases and addressing the anti-vaccination movement.
Jasdeep Kler
I’m equally interested in public health research and translating those findings into public health policy.
Kyera Suggs
I work for a local non-profit organization in Memphis with preschoolers.
Lauren Silverwood
It is our job as health professionals to constructively correct the misinformation that exists and innovatively reach communities that do not have adequate access to vaccinations.
Joanna McClain
I am interested in program evaluation, employee health, and family planning.
Abigail Lee
I believe the effect of societal stigma is an incredible issue in public health.
Sonia Sampson
So much of what influences our health occurs outside our interactions with medical professionals.
Keegan Krause
The public health issue that I see as most pressing right now is that im/migration is not explicitly viewed nor treated by our government as a public health issue, but rather as a "national security threat".
Kyanna Williams-Pate
Public health is bridging the gaps between health disparities to provide equitable healthcare for all.
Juan Gudino
My interest in public health was initially sparked by the various racial inequities that are found throughout the United States.
Zaena Tessema
My research interests primarily revolve around infectious diseases and emergency preparedness, which kind of tie into what I believe to be one of the biggest public health threats.
Kaela Edwards
I was fortunate enough to study both biology and Spanish during my undergraduate career. The intersection of health and culture has always been of interest to me. Public health was the perfect field to study acculturation and all the other factors that influence health.
Rachel Ford
I read "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston in high school and realized that I was fascinated by epidemiology and how researchers work to track down the sources of disease and how they use that knowledge to implement future prevention strategies.
Alextia Armstrong
Public health is a universal umbrella--a crucial component needed to protect all things living and the environment safe from dangerous effects of disease, disasters and ultimately human actions.
Anna-Michelle McSorley
Public health is the advancement of social, political, and economic structures that support the health and well-being of all populations equitably.
Elliott Bosco
Public health is all efforts aimed at helping people live their healthiest lives.
Zuleyma Ruiz
As a Latina I discovered how important public health is to my community and wish to work towards increasing the health of undeserved and minority populations.
Ross Ogden
The most rewarding experience has been becoming aware of a different view of medicine regarding our entire country and world. And learning how health disparities and inequities continue the cycle of sickness, poverty, and mortality.
Laura Jones
Laboratory research is my first love but I wanted to do more with people and not just with cells and DNA, and epidemiology wound up being an excellent fit.
Seamus Taylor
Public health is ultimately about coming together as a community to better ourselves, our environment, and our interactions through evidence-based practices that center around health outcomes and the social determinants of health.
Alessandra Pratt
Public health is the silent hero protecting everyone from you to me.
Kamrie Sarnosky
Public Health is the complete wellbeing of the population and the planet in which we live!
Noble K. Salwan
Public health is a method of preventing diseases and infections from occurring, improving the quality of life, and working with racial disparities at a population level rather than an individual scope.
Morgan Drexler
Public Health means prevention and helping to implement behavior change to create healthier people and communities.
Mam Jarra Gai
Public health is working together on a local, national and international level to help ameliorate the health of the population as a whole.
Azka Khawaja
Public health is essential to preventing disease and injury, protecting populations, and invigorating people to lead healthy lives through research, policy, and health behavior strategies which is something I am proud to be a part of.
Shanaika Grandoit
Public health to me is shining light on the injustices people face across the world and being a drop in the bucket of change.
Mawyah Bashatah
Public Health is my life. I live to learn, educate, and promote Public health.
Melissa Otterbein
Public health is the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual empowerment of individuals and communities.
Ashiye Aator
My most rewarding experience is being taught by so many professors who are experts in the field of Public Health.
Karina Goicochea
Public health is advocating and empowering communities to live healthier and happier lives.
Aishwarya Nagar
Public health is using transdisciplinary problem solving to improve health outcomes for everyone: from individuals to communities to whole ecosystems.
Meredith Morrison
Public health is about empowering individuals to be able to make informed decisions about their health.
Allante Moon
Public health is literally everything in the world! Specifically, for me, it’s education on healthy behaviors/lifestyles and prevention of disease for communities!
Sabera Saleh
After visiting a small, under privileged community in Honduras I understood that Public Health is the most important area of study that I could use to one day help another human being.
Antonio Foles
Public Health is empowering individuals to make positive changes in their own health as well as in the community around them.
Kurayi Mahachi
Public health is providing communities all over the world with the preventative services to protect them from infectious diseases such cholera or malaria which could otherwise be prevented.
Vanessa Freire
Public health is the knowledge and power that comes with preventing diseases.
Vanessa Vassall
Public Health is empowering people to take their community's health into their own hands.
Jessica Sexton
Public Health is the epitome of teamwork and the force that will one day see the end of the AIDS epidemic.
Ans Irfan
Public health is the protection and amelioration of all what we eat, drink, breathe, and where we live, work and play. Public health is like oxygen; it is critical, but we do not see it in action.
Junaed Siddiqui
Public Health is making an impact in your life and in the lives of others by making healthy lifestyle choices!
Reece Lyerly
Public health is all about health equity and creating a world in which all persons can live active, healthy, and whole lives.
Katie Overbey
Bringing multiple people, talents, and fields together in order to protect and improve health.
Yoshira Ornelas
Public health is everyone's responsibility. We can each do our part to keep ourselves, our community, and our world healthy.
Diana Cassar-Uhl
Public health represents the place between what society provides and what individuals need in order to achieve their highest potential for health.
Megan Whetzel
Public Health to me, means that I will be involved in the process of protecting and improving the health of my community through the use of preventative medicine, health education, control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary measures, and monitoring of environmental hazards.
Molly Phares
Public health is promoting health through a community effort and lowering health threats and disparities.
Stuart Portman
Public health is the intersection of wellness, medicine, social norms, and policy which seeks to make meaningful changes in individuals and systems.
Sharon Qin
Public health is about attaining the physical and psychological well being for each and every individual around the globe, through collaboration and partnership among private sectors, community organizations, and public health leaders.
Esther Robbins
Public health is the ability to look at health issues in a community or population and create/develop solutions that have long-term impacts for promotion of health and prevention of disease.
Maya Robinson
Public health is gathering the community and interdisciplinary teams together to create an environment that will improve the quality of life for all individuals and provide sustainable tools that will encourage people to live healthier lives.
Oreoluwa Otubanjo
Public health is making a difference by improving the health of the community as a whole through the application of preventive measures.
Marysel Pagán Santana
Public health is the combination of all factors and determinants that affect an individuals’ health and by association the health of a community.
Antegoni Kyros
To me, public health is a field of medicine whose main objectives are not only to prevent disease while promoting health through various methods of treatment and education, but also to identify and understand the specific health needs of a population, to value those needs, and to work to fulfill them.
Marjorie Larson
Public health is the force dedicated to the advancement of the basic human right to health in all communities, local to global.
Melissa Leon
Public health means to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals.
Chelsea Lutz
Public health is the multidimensional integration of a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines for the betterment of human health and quality of life.
Rianna Murray
Public health is improving the physical, mental and social wellbeing of all humanity, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, religion, or otherwise.
Frédérique Jean-Baptiste
Public health is promoting health through action, motivation, and education.
Paula Kamara
Public Health is protecting the global community by creating safe and healthy environments where people can reach their full potential.
Katie Kuhns
Public health is a field where scientists and practitioners unite to tackle current challenges, regardless of how big or small, that threaten to compromise the health, safety, and welfare of our people.
Eileen Dolan
During my undergraduate career I volunteered in the communities of Trujillo and Agallpampa, Peru and fell in love with the experiences I had helping people through parasite prevention, education and establishing free weekend health clinics.
Kristely Bastien
Global health is a combined effort that involves people from all walks of life; from nurses and tribal healers to translators and farmers. I want to be a part of their integrated efforts to support public health. Additionally, my volunteer work with a Special Olympics team showed me the importance of inclusivity and the power of compromise.
Brooke Farrenkopf
Public health is improving the health and lives of people, millions at a time.
Katelyn Hurley
Public health is improving the health of communities and populations through disease prevention and health promotion.
Mariam Irshad
Public health is the art and science of protecting the health of populations. Imagine the impact of healing a single person or fixing an individual condition; now multiple that by hundreds, thousands, even millions – that’s the impact of public health.
Brenda Bustillos
Public health is multi-faceted, population-based area of concentration for improved health and well-being; focusing on the greater ecological perspectives for prevention, intervention, education, and evaluation.
Abby Cabrera
Public health is the avenue in which social, physical, and mental health are addressed to improve the overall health and well-being of populations.
Nancy Cardona
Public health is not only the study and analysis of environmental impacts and human health disparities, or quantifying a specific disease in a community, but it’s also taking action on these, and engaging with the community.
Tara Chico
Public health is improving the health of families and communities through health promotion and disease prevention, detection and control through the lens of community empowerment.
Thomas Cordon
Public health to me is the sustainable, collective effort to promote well being, quality of life, and health equity to all members in a community.
Angela Ryck
Public health is about creating an environment that encourages people to make the healthy choice.
Juhi Goswamy
Public health is my passion. It is the ability to systematically identify and prevent disease through collaboration between interdisciplinary teams, communities, and populations.
Audrey Jacobsen
The biggest challenge in public health is finding novel ways to address health disparities in our communities.
Isabel Griffin
My passion for public health stems from my belief that we are to treat others how we would like to be treated and I wouldn’t want to be hungry, drinking contaminated water or dying of a preventable disease.
Joshua Sznol
I was inspired to study public health because of the emphasis on understanding an individual’s environment in determining disease.
Aly Jaffer
Public health is an ecosystem that is always changing—with different communities, cultures, and stakeholders—all of which have a vested interest in making a population healthy from the start.
Charles Chen
Public health is the holistic approach to addressing issues of social, mental, and physical health of a society over the course of a lifetime.
Chase Knickerbocker
Public health is getting the largest number of people in best health possible with efficiency, compassion, and collaboration.
Daniella Orihuela
Public health is the combination of a variety of interests and skills (engineering, medicine, environmental, education, etc.) coming together to provide people with the opportunities to lead healthier lives.
Daphney Dorcius
Public health is the interdisciplinary science that focuses on improving and promoting the complete health (mental, physical, behavioral) of individuals and communities.
Henry Olano
Public health fosters people’s wellbeing by providing our local, national, and global communities with the necessary tools for them to prevent disease and practice healthy living.
Jeffrey Lin
Public health encompasses the full spectrum of broad-based public initiatives that improve the health of our communities, whether they comprise a row of houses along a street, an entire school district, or an entire nation.
Maryann Koussa
Public health is community empowerment through reduction of health disparities, awareness and education of risk reduction strategies, and prevention and policy development.
Catarina Castruccio-Prince
Public health is developing sustainable interventions that inspire communities to be more participatory in their own health and wellness by promoting awareness and personal accountability.
Olivia Lawson
Public health is constant collaboration and communication with communities to work towards making sustainable healthy lifestyle choices.
Meghan Rosenkranz
Public health is the overall protection of population health by implementing comprehensive and multidisciplinary approaches that focus on prevention.
Christopher Kim
Public health, for me, is the endeavor to create a world in which all populations reach an ideal level of health and wellbeing.
Johanna Segovia
Public health is bridging opportunities to communities within and beyond our borders to a healthier quality of life.
Lisa Acuff
Public health embraces a holistic view of health for all individuals and populations.