Bubblebee Personal Statement Essay

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Personal Statement Being a first generation college student from an immigrant family who deeply values community support, both my academic and personal experiences has guided me down this career path to community health promotion. As immigrants but also first generation, I’ve grown up in two different cultures that don’t always see a situation in the same light. Initially, it was hard to choose and pick which one was right or wrong. But, I’ve grown to not think of it as right or wrong but as good or bad, not weird or strange but as different. Everyone comes from different backgrounds with different perspectives that are all equally important to acknowledge. As a student, through the public health courses that I took, the thoughts
Through a grand challenge course focusing on global health, my interests and passion in collaborating with communities to solve and promote better health behaviors that suits the community members. In teams based on interest on topic, a one health issue in Uganda that was a primary concern of ours was antibiotic resistance. As much as we wanted to tackle this problem at the human level, we were informed that it is hard to change peoples’ behaviors especially when it comes to behaviors that affect themselves. One of the advices that we received from one of the coaches that I have used to open my eyes to other ideas and perspectives is that people are not stupid, they know things are bad for them, but there has to be other incentives or motivations that pushes for that change in behavior. For example, with smoking, a lot of people know that smoking is bad but it hard to quit without any other motivators than just education on the outcome of smoking. Thus, we had to scale down our initial impact to the antibiotic use on poultry farms in hope of making a large impact in the future when it becomes visible that antibiotic don’t cure and prevent