Making a Difference

I was born in an underprivileged community known as Gbalaswa, a highly economic disadvantage Island in Liberia. This community is confronted with many environmental challenges and public health uncertainties. So many communities in Liberia including mine, are engulfed with those challenges.

 My community is surrounded with wetland and mangroves swamp. In my community, residents build latrine facilities hanging on the wetlands and mangroves while others connect their sewer pipeline directly to the wetland and mangroves without any consideration to the pollution they cause to the environment. Wetlands are often used as dump sites; other times they are cut down and filled for construction of settlement and energy purposes that affect population health.  

I have considered it necessary to pursue a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Global Environmental Sustainability and Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I wish to take on this degree because of the significant knowledge gaps regarding preventive approaches in Liberia’s healthcare sector. 

Afterwards, I would like to pursue a Doctoral Research Degree (Exposure Sciences and Environmental Epidemiology) at Johns Hopkins to improve my knowledge and potentials of contributing to global health issues, mainly in addressing limitations in primary prevention to provide strategy in combating environmental public health challenges. I intend to incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) training and Data analytics for integrating public health spatial analysis while studying. With a good training in GIS techniques, I will be able to apply the skills to validate remotely sensed environmental data and this will significantly promote the prevention of endemic diseases in Liberia. And with the growing population of 1.2 billion in Africa, it is my wish to also expand my acquired knowledge by providing technical environmental and healthcare services via GIS techniques to others African nations. Getting a space to study Public Health at Johns Hopkins will be a golden opportunity for me to acquire the knowledge and skill needed to contribute to addressing the global challenges in environment and healthcare. 

I want Liberia to be a healthy and environmentally sustainable country. I am quite hopeful that, with an education and training from the institution; I will have the capacity to contribute to a sustainable health system in Liberia and the world at large. 

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