By: Sara Thorpe Editor’s Note: Over the next several weeks, Destination HealthEU will feature pieces from students from the Center for the Study of Human Health. This piece is an introduction to six student essays about their experiences participating in…
Imagine, a rural patient from the countryside needs to travel 100 miles three times a month; four hours on a rocky road, three intermittent bus changes, and taking one day off from work, just to obtain professional cardiovascular health care.…
As a Human Health major and Political Science minor, I’ve always had a fascination for the intersection of public policy and public health. Last summer I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant at the UBC School of…
Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash By: Deanna Altomara When I signed up for the job, I did not envision myself toting buckets of blood across a middle school gym. Yet this was the least of the challenges I encountered while planning and…
By: Imani Brooks On September 10, 2019, I attended Break the Cycle of Autism Disparities: Promoting Equity for Children with Autism at the Emory Nursing School. This is event, which was hosted by the Atlanta Autism Consortium, focused on the work of…
Photo by Bruno Nascimento on Unsplash By: Adaora Ntukogu This Summer, I became a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. My decision to pursue this certification was very spontaneous, but quickly became necessary and obvious. From childhood, I have…
By: Deanna Altomara Of all the countries I visited on my study abroad program in the Spring of 2019, Vietnam felt the most foreign. This southeast Asian country had a completely different language, culture, and history than anything I’ve ever…
By: Azzairia Jackson-Sherrod Editors’ Note: This post is from a Human Health course titled “Nutrition and Health Mythbusters” taught by Dr. Myra Woodworth-Hobbs. You can read more about the class and assignment here as well as read another student's work…
By: Mimi Xu, Ayana Dickens, and Avani Patel Editor’s Note: This piece is the fourth of four student essays about their experiences participating in Health 1,2,3’s classroom to community 4th level component. See here to learn more about this new program…
Editor’s Note: This piece is the third of four student essays about their experiences participating in Health 1,2,3’s classroom to community 4th level component. See here to learn more about this new program and read the second one here. By: Mimi Xu,…