MPH in Global and Environmental Health Information Session
Description of the video:
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hello everyone my name is max moreno i
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am an associate professor at the
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department of global health at the
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fairbanks school of public health
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i am also the director of the program
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of the master in science in global
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health and sustainable development and
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the master in public health in global
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and environmental health
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so i'm here today to give you a brief
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introduction of briefing information
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about what the program of the master of
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public health in global environmental
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health is
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and hopefully you will decide to join us
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when you realize how fun this subject
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and how important it is
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for
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the
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well for the good of society in general
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and
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sustainable development because that is
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also a topic that
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we give some emphasis even though our
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main interest is
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foreign and global health
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and in what in regard to environment
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it is
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all the determinants that are out there
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in the surrounding physical environment
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all those factors that surround us that
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determine
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public health so that is um the
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main focus of this
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program
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and
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also
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with a strong interest in
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global aspect global issues specifically
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or mostly mainly climate change in
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climate change is such a important
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environmental
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factor at the global level
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that is influencing
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since now public health and will
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be increasingly being more and more of
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determinant
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on global health as a whole
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so i have prepared a few slides for you
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to provide this kind of
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information or description about the
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program
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and
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i will then
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share my screen to those slides
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and
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we will start talking about those
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do you see my screen right
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yeah i can see it okay cool
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so
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this first slide has some students in
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your program and some of them have
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already graduated
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and you can see also within our theme
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he is the dean of the fairbanks school
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of public health
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you will then have an opportunity
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during the course of your program to
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have a more connection and more
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conversation
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with him and
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and just like with
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all the faculty in your program
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so what is the vision of this program
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the vision of uh public health in
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general so we will start with the vision
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of public health which is the overall
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aspect of this master
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division of public health is healthy
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people in healthy communities
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so this is important to keep in mind
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that public health is all about the
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health in the community in the
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population
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not
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doing that much emphasis with the help
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on the individual of course it cares
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about the health individual
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but because
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the union of many individuals is the
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population so
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overall the objective the main idea of
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public health is pursuing the health in
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the population
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so the mission of public health is to
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promote physical and mental health
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prevent disease injury and disability
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so
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some common
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misunderstanding or misconceptions or
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sometimes confusion that are out there
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is the definition between medicine and
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public health
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very often are considered like
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interchangeable they are actually even
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though they are strongly related they
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are to
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they have two different
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focus
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medicines focus on the health of the
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individual
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while public health focus on the health
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of the population as i previously
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mentioned
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medicine focus on treatment curing
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the individual when the individual is
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already sick while
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public health
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look for prevention so he
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tried to prevent the disease not curing
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the disease but preventing the disease
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so it worked on the healthy people so
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they don't have
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to use uh the physician actually they
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don't need a medical doctor because they
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don't get sick so that is the goal of
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political prevention of disease
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and then
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medicine focus also on medical care to
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treat illness and injury holy hell focus
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on environment and environment in the
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human behavior and lifestyle
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to prevent illness and injury so those
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are basic distinction between what
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medicine and public health is
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it's nice to quote this sentence
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um
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the
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everest group
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medical doctor he was his former us
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surgeon general during the government of
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ronald reagan he say healthcare is vital
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to all of us some of the time but public
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health is vital to all of us all of the
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time
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and
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this is as clear as transparent water
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and we usually don't give the importance
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of public health that it deserves we
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usually think about
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hell when once we are sick and then we
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go to the doctor when we are scared when
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we are afraid about the consequence of
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any illness that we are suffering at the
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moment
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then is when we look for professional
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attention and we go to the medical
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doctor but in order to avoid that
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problem we should care about health all
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the time when we
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are healthy so this way we won't have
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to eventually go to the doctor
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so
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the fairbanks school of public health
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has is fully accredited by the council
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on education in public health and also
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is now accredited in fact is the first
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united states school accredited by the
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agency for public health uh education
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of europe
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so we got accredited by this
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organization in 2019 and we are the
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first
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school
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in the united states with that
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accreditation
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which is degradation in in europe
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so
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the first work
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in our program has been designed
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according to the 17 sustainable
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development goals as i say
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we
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have
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sustainability and balance with the
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environment as one of our goals of our
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orientation
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so
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the idea here is that
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public health strongly depend of a
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healthy environment so
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the better is the health of the
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environment
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the
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more will be the chances of having a
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public health since
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the environment the physical environment
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is among the most important determinants
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of public health and also the
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socio-economic the social environment is
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a strong determinant of public health in
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many aspects you will say that is even
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more important but even that we could
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consider it as environment because we
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can talk about environment from the
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point of view of the physical
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environment or we can talk about the
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environment from the point of view of
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the social environment
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so
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either of these two definitions of
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environment you use the point is that
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sustainability align very well with
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those two definitions with those two
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goals
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and the
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sustainable development goals that have
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been set by the united nations to be
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achieved
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by 2013 they were said in 2015 in
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paris
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so
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the idea is to either achieve this goal
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hopefully achieving this goal or getting
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as close as possible so all these goals
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are
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based on a type of
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development that will be in balance with
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the physical environment so we have
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getting those goals to orientate the
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courses that we have developed that we
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have designed so in this way these
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courses will
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be oriented toward
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educating to our providing information
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acknowledge
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public health and about the environment
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about sustainability and about all of
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those aspects
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relate to provide
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public health
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so those are the courses
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we have a course
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on
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on
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public health
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so the first
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four
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courses that you see in this curriculum
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they are shared with the author in ph
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with the other program for mph in our
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school so in other words the
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mph in the department of global
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social and behavioral
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science
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also the mph in the department of
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biostatistics the one in epidemiology
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the governing health policy and
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management
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all those students seeking those
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drugs in their mph will be taking the
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same classes so um
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when those classes are offered
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when you take those classes you probably
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will have a fellow student from any of
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those track follicles so the important
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point is that
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all of our mph will have the
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same basics on public health the same
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qualm polling health
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and then after having the core in public
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health we then have a core
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in
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global environmental health
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and those
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five courses uh those uh
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six courses that you have here
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in the second
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section will constitute the core and
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those are the courses that i was
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mentioning in my previous slide that
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will
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be
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oriented to uh
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health and sustainable development so
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those six courses
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were the ones designed according to the
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17
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sustainable development goals
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and then
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lastly the
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this
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third block is
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constituted by
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three electives that you need to take so
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you can
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from that bank that bank has five
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courses
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you can choose three out of those five
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and in some cases you can also propose a
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course of your interest that is from
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another program it could be a another
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department from our school or
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in some cases could be even from a
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different school so if there is a course
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that is a lot of your interest you can
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propose to us we study the course and
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then we think it align
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with the end with the goal of the
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program and then we let you use it as
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one of the electives that are required
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for this
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program
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and then finally you will have to do an
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internship
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and a final project then in the
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internship
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you
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will have the opportunity to get a sense
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of what is the work in the real
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professional life
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so
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most students do it during the summer
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but you can also do it during the fall
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or during the
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the spring
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the idea is that
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you
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will
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look for a place in an industry in an
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institution in any agency
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in any organization that
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works in topics related to
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environmental health or and a global
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environmental health
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so
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you propose to them to do an internship
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sometime some of those organizations
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they actively seek for
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students that are willing to do
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internship in those organizations
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sometimes the institutions don't
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normally have those services but you can
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still propose them and you'll be
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admitted and then you will work with
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them you will complete the number of
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hours
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and then you will present two
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word products from that internship
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and then the final project is soar
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of a research project most of the time
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doesn't necessarily need to be
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research but
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we prefer research project something in
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which you exercise the knowledge you
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have received during the course work
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and you applied that
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to
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research
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to
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obtain some findings to
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to
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hopefully find something that will be
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worthy of publication so we strongly
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encourage that our students when they do
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this final project they have in mind
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the intention of polishing it in a
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journal so if it doesn't get to the
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level that is
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suitable for publication is you can
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still get a good grade you can still get
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an a
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but
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if
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the project is so good that is
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suitable for publication for at least to
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be submitted to a journal for
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consideration to publication um that is
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because the project is really really
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good and then for sure you will have
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more ensure the a or a class in this so
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here is the idea
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is to be a researcher
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so you will do a small project and it
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doesn't
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need to have the rigor of a thesis but
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the idea is that to get as close as
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possible to a real thesis
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um you will then submit a paper
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which you provide your results the paper
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should have all the section of our
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research papers so it should have
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presentation page and abstract and
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introduction methodology
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results discussions and then their
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reference
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and you will also do a presentation and
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oral presentation to defend the findings
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to defend what you found
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in your new paper
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so these are the
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two
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programs we have uh we offer five
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programs but two of those programs uh
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are directed by me i am the director of
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these two problems the mph and the ms
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they have some
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similarities but the mph
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have more coursework and has a formation
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more complete as it also includes
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the
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internship and the funnel project which
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will give you um
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more experience and more practice in
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events in work that are
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those that you will be doing in your
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future in your professional
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life in your professional career
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so what you will be doing
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with your degree
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there are plenty of fields in which you
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can work with this
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degree
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fields that are related to public health
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to globalization to global health to
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global issues
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to
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environment so
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there are works a little bit uh like
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environmental specialists environmental
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officers you can work for uh state
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agencies for uh ornamental agencies at
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the federal level at the local level at
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the state level for the private sector
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for academia
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for
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private institutions
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as a environmental specialist as a
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public health officer
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also a non-governmental organization is
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another important field in which you
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could work
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and
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especially agencies that are related to
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global issues to international issues
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because we
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place a lot of focus in global issues in
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global aspects public health at the at
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the global level
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so
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we
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have a system a package in which we also
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provide you with
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guidance about how to
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apply for jobs
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amelia hart
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she's the director of the career
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services
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so
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she can help you um
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to
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orientate you to train you about how to
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um create your
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cv how to apply how to present to
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interviews how to relate to the
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interviewers
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in general
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information that will be helpful for you
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once you get your degree and you get out
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of the
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let's say real work or you work on your
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on your career
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also while you are still a student she
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can help you finding places to be
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internship
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so
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yeah she also
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distribute those
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by monthly newsletter with opportunities
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that you may wanna
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pay attention to those for any
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opportunity that arise
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so there are extracurricular it is that
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you will have a chance to participate on
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those
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those opportunities
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many of them relate to
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situations
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to problems to solving problems in the
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communities
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so
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you will have also chances to do that
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if you want to gain experience and to
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strengthen
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your commitment with public health and
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the community in general
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so the public health corps
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public health practice center is a
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volunteer program and you can
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participate in it
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it works with the political practitioner
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and administrators or you will have a
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chance if you want that you don't have
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to but it's a good opportunity to gain
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experience you will have a chance to
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work with the expert with other people
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that is already in your field working on
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that for a long time and which have
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accumulated a huge amount of experience
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that will be helpful for you as well
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uh and then there are diverse projects
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in where you can participate a product
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like related to cleaning a park
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also relates to data entry
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working with
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gis and map production in your graphical
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information system
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and several projects in which you will
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have
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opportunity to participate in and you
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will be exposed to those during the
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course of your program
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so an aspect we encourage in our
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students since
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we offer a program of global health
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is to participate in study abroad
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courses we offer several study abroad
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courses
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that at the moment they are suspended
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because of covet
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but
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we are waiting for the situation to be
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normalized in regard to covet so we can
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renew you and we can continue
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with our study abroad courses so they
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are very important because they will
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give you this opportunity to
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know
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cultures
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in
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different
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continents very far away
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from where you are right now um very
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different culture very different
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acknowledge very different type of
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addressing problems and making their
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living so that will increase by a lot
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your general culture and your
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view will be broadening by a lot i mean
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this uh
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so wide experiences that that's part of
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what we want to enrich with this
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program so we offer courses to london to
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south africa
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uh we are preparing some for india and
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china we have one ready to tahina
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colombia which by the way is my hometown
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but
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we had to
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suspend it right few weeks before it was
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supposed to start because it was right
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when
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kobit
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started covet hit
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we will also have a story abroad to
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ecuador and to kenya and among other
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countries that we plan to visit
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it does study abroad and remember this
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is one of the courses that you can use
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as one of the three electives you need
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so we strongly encourage that one of
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those three electives is one of those
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study abroad courses you don't have to
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you can get your degree without having a
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study abroad and just taking a different
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elective and that's totally fine
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but if you
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can take one of those story abroad
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courses that would be ideal
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and we have
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continuously
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guest speakers from
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institutions at the
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government level at the private sector
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level especially
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professionals in this field of public
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health and global environmental health
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global health in general so that also
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will be another of the enemy avenues to
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enrich your culture and knowledge
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on this program
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so dr stephen a he is like the
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creator like the father of this program
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he was the chair of the department of
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global
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health
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or public health before we became a
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school so
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before
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we
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before we became a school we used to be
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a department of public health within the
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school of
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of medicine so by the time we were at
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department in the school of medicine dr
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stephen j
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was the chair of the department
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and then we became school and he has
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been actively
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related participating in all our
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activities he now retired his emergency
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professor but he still keep having close
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contact without the school and he is one
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of those experts that
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continuously offer talks and share their
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his experience with our students
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so we have the privilege in our campus
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to be close to so many
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institutions that are strongly related
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to health and public health
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we
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have
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the
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school of medicine
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many
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hospitals nearby
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we have
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the global community of our office of
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international affairs
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which also provide a lot of information
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for our students in regard to getting
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study abroad courses
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different programs we have the impact
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project
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the cheer project with the community
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engagement
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we have plenty of
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institution the translational research
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where
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you can get access to information
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to internship and to
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many avenues of gaining experience via
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them as well
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so how to
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apply
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program
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how can you apply
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so those are
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some
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pathway for you to guide
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those numbers are not updated so you may
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want to check for the most updated
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number but
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they
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you should be able to
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get access to the updated dates
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by following this
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link
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and also in our website you get
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all the information you need
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to
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apply to our program
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so as i say i am the program director
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um please feel free to reach
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to me whenever you have
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any question when you like more details
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about the program will be more than
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happy to provide information you need
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also
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you
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