Statement of Purpose and Objectives: A Statement of Purpose and Objectives is intended to give you the opportunity to submit a narrative describing your past education, experience, and current professional career objectives. You are encouraged to comment on any or all of the following: plans you have to use your education and training; the needs and/or challenges you perceive as important in your field of study; and any personal qualities, characteristics, and skills you believe will enable you to be successful in your chosen field of study. If there are any extenuating circumstances that you wish for the Admissions Committee to consider, please briefly describe them in your Statement of Purpose and Objectives. In addition, the personal statement should address the following:

Why Public Health?

What are your public health interests?

Why UT Health Houston?

“Click, click” the camera flashed and before I knew it I walked across the stage, I had just received my first college degree. Next week I would be walking across to receive my high school diploma. I thought to myself at 17?

 

The first time I encountered a health course was it was summer 17. The course, community health, I looked up the description and it indicated…

I never looked at Health as an important variable in my life. I recall watching An The Band Played On , In which was about the AIDS Epidemic and knives over forks, these documentaries and movies focus on the health and wellness aspect. At this period of time I also begin to incorporate and expose myself/discovered that I enjoyed exploring and learning about traveling and off I begin my research through my modeled United Nations class. I then was fascinated and decided to take matters into my own hands;I applied to a program in Madrid, Spain and later won a scholarship or took me abroad for a total of a month.

 

I was able to immerse myself into the culture anything it to study data that involved the (AIDS).

 

 

Senior year of high school had the opportunity to get an internship at eye care for kids, insert description.

 

I am able to graduate with a degree and a diploma in 2018 June. 17 I’m able to attend transfer and attend college at the University and Texas at San Antonio I continue to choose public health as my major. I decide to join The public health society, PERIOD at UTSA , Women in leadership. Professors and peers about expanding and they tell me that I am on the right path and they discussed that I have made the right decision to continue my education and get my Masters.

At UTSA I was able to take courses such as global health, United States healthcare systems, and intro to epidemiology. These courses motivated me to get an internship Prevent Blindness Texas. This opened my eyes to understand that there is a need for epidemiologist research in health disparities in my minority groups,global health and substance abuse.

 

I’m still on my academic path and I’m very ready to pursue my masters degree. I believe the UT health is able to push me too… Through Their specific concentrations by cardiovascular disease, diabetes malicious and other chronic diseases, health services research, injury violence and substance abuse. I’ve been able to learn with competency through my various journeys abroad and I feel as if this a major component to motivate to continue???

Resilience?

Persistence?

(Talk about skills?)

By choosing UT health I would have the privilege of continuing my ….. with Women in leadership and new organizations

Choose a scientific topic and identify a research question that could be addressed using a scientific model. The purpose of this assignment is to get you to think from the perspective of a modeler. You don’t need to actually build a model, but I’d like you to consider the type of model that would best suit the research question, how the model would be designed, etc. You can pick any type of model we covered in class. You can look at existing literature to get an idea of what an interesting research question could be, but please come up with the idea for the model yourself. Then, in at least 300 words, post answers to the following questions.

1. What topic did you choose? What research question did you identify?
2. What is the target system your model represents? (A target system is the system in the real world that is reproduced by the model)
3. What type of modeling did you choose to address this question? Please explain your choice.
4. Describe your model. What are the components? What type of synthetic data would it produce? What kind of results would support or refute your hypothesis?
5. How does your model increase knowledge about underlying processes?
6. What challenges might a modeler face if she was going to build your model?

Response posts are optional, but are worth 1% extra credit (max of 3). To get points you must respond to someone’s post with an idea for a different type of model that could address their research question (or one similar to it) from another angle. Answer questions 3-5 above and compare your model with that of the original poster.