As alum and public health professor Rohan Jeremiah knows well, public health does its best work when it remembers the inherent strengths and unique qualities of the communities it seeks to serve. This means paying close attention to local cultures and thinking creatively about ways to turn challenges into opportunities.
That year in Uganda was “the most challenging and the most fulfilling year of my life,” Mosley says. “And as much as it got me interested in global health issues, it reaffirmed my desire also to be deeply engaged here in the States with public health issues.”
Whether he’s working alongside lawmakers in Michigan’s capital, community members in Ohio neighborhoods, or researchers and psychologists in Chilean schools, MPH candidate Julian Roby is putting his public health education into action to become an agent of change around health disparities and health policy.