Public Health

I am applying for the PhD program on Global Health Studies. Global Health Studies will help me to gain the skills to analyze the unrevealed factors in domestic and international health challenges. It will teach me how to make difficult social choices by combining research and service experience; to provide solutions to individual or population of world health issues and to implement disease prevention strategies (Benatar and Brock, 2011).

My family history and life experience are relevant to my passion. In order to improve my skills and advance my understanding on population health and its determination, I often feel that I need a professional health care education to become a health care manager and serve many underprivileged people in Nigeria. Though, I have attended multiple seminars, conferences, taken electives and unofficially auditing health class to learn more about variations of health topics. It is my longtime commitment to become a health care professional to make health care program more advance and to reduce health inequalities to improve health quality for the citizens of Nigeria (Haugen and Musser, 2012). The Bloomberg School will help me to gain the most current thinking of the health care system. I am certainly impressed with the traditional and culture of inclusion, academic reputation and most importantly the motivating faculty. Bloomberg School always promotes excellence by recruiting a various group of faculty and creates a climate of respect which is supportive of me to achieve my career goal.

I born and raised in Nigeria. I have been raised in an economically strong family. I assumed what would have been my life I was not. I feel disturbed seeing the poverty which increases the risk of diseases and inadequate nutrition among many low-income families who are not able to afford even the basic requirement of living. After completion of my high school, I decided to use my savings to start a microfinance venture and helped many poor families to improve their lives and pull themselves out from extreme poverty by providing job opportunities (Jacobsen, 2008). I offered small loan to the women to encourage a small business with a small investment, like opened a barbing saloon, arcade game house and purchased a motorcycle for men to provide taxi service as it is impossible for cars to run on rough roads in the rural area of Northern Nigeria. The people whom I have supported in past they are doing good now and have become financially strong. They are also helping others in the same way as I did to them. I also got the opportunity to volunteer with HIV/AIDS organization campaigning for public awareness regarding HIV/AIDS, primarily on abstinence prevention and treatment (Skolnik, 2008). Additionally, I have spent several years working with youths and have travelled extensively around Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Benin, Switzerland, Netherlands, England, Germany and United States promoting human rights, positive thinking, cultural understanding and the need to improve community’s health challenges I have also assisted and co-lead a program that deals with violence in public called Values Over Violence with cooperative Metropolitan Ministry and other non-profit organization around the Boston area.

References

Benatar, S. and Brock, G. (2011). Global health and global health ethics. 8th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Haugen, D. and Musser, S. (2012). Health care. 10th ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press.

Jacobsen, K. (2008). Introduction to global health. 2nd ed. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Pub.

Skolnik, R. (2008). Essentials of global health. 3rd ed. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.