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University of Edinburgh - Global Health Policy Personal Statement Please give a short statement that describes your academic interests, purpose, objectives and motivation in undertaking this postgraduate study. (max 3500 chars – approx. 500 words) understand, critically appraise and apply key concepts and theories within policy studies, international political economy and public health science with specific reference to social and economic determinants of population health status; public health policy norms; concepts of epidemiology and research methods; and processes and institutions of public policy-making. You will also develop the skills to: apply social science perspectives to public health questions assess the changing context of public health policy formulation analyse diverse source materials and apply to public health questions articulate your own conception of core challenges confronting public health engage in public health advocacy work acr...

University of Kent: MSc in Infectious Diseases Reasons for study (minimum of 100 words, maximum of 2000 characters) * Everyone has that “ah-ah” moment that sparks up an interest. Watching the movie - Rampage was my “ah-ah” moment. I was fascinated by the high level of technology mashed up with molecular science to create a deadly pathogen. That day, I read about Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and figured there was more to CRISPR and the movie did not accurately do justice to the gene editing tool that can be used to target and destroy invading foreign DNA cells, and actually manage infectious disease pathogens. I wanted to know more and that day marked the beginning of my quest to know more about infectious diseases, especially how they affect a large number of the human population. Having been introduced to some pathogens of infectious diseases during my undergraduate study in Parasitology and Microbiology classes, that set a tone for my ...

Royal Veterinary College - MSc in One Health: ecosystems, humans and animals (1000 words) …explaining why you would like to do the course and outlining your relevant skills and experiences - Why do you want to study the course and how will it benefit you? What qualities, including soft skills, can you bring to the course or how does the course suit your current skill set?  Why the RVC? What aspirations do you have for the future? How will your studies contribute to the College, your professional field and/or wider society? Everyone has that “ah-ah” moment that allows you to see a situation from a better perspective and takes away the fog that once clouded one’s vision. My first Veterinary Public Health class in my fifth year of university was my big “ah-ah” moment. I could not expressly decide if I had found my passion, but I knew I had found something that resonated with me. Using a social science approach to study traditional science was what tickled my f...

"No o, oko mi, sit down, your sister will clear the table" or "No o, Jide, you shouldn't be doing that, it's a girl's duty" or "Jumoke! Why is your brother doing the dishes?" or "Amaka, is that how you'll be cooking in your husband's house?" or "Ah ah! Funke, you knew Akin won't sweep this place well, why didn't you sweep it?" or "Let all the women join us in the kitchen, while the men talk business." You know who's talking in all these instances? The mothers ! And that's where it starts from. Personally, I don't see how we can close the gender gap faster before 135 years from now - as predicted by the World Economic Forum - if we don't handle gender parity from the root - the home ! The examples I mentioned above lead to what is called "Conditioning." That's the problem! We have attached roles to genders conditioning the thoughts of both sexes that this and t...

"Those shoes are certainly beautiful and match with the bag. But they must have cost a fortune." I say this kind of thing to myself probably every Sunday. By the way, I attend a very elite church, one that you'll have no need for a catalogue to get fashion ideas once you step into. That aside, back to my thought. Maybe because I envision a lot and I'm constantly always engaging my mind in several conversations, I have such thoughts about fashion and being girly, which I'm struggling to be so good at. But every time I look at the shoes and the bags and the jumpsuits and the human hair and the flawless makeup, I always ask myself again "Do you know the source?" "Can you afford it now ?"         Alright, let's get started with the essence of writing this blogpost that has been on my mind for weeks now. First, I am not lazy. Second, I am hardworking. I know they mean basically the same thing, but yea, let's pretend they a...