Juicy
My tardiness in posting is for good reason. Studies are going well. As I mentioned in my last post, my peers are fab. I just returned to the library after a break for coffee with a friend from the course. She's spent the last 7 years working for the World Bank and Surfaid in Indonesia and turned down a position with the UN to do this course. If that speaks to the quality of the program than I am in good hands, and I think it does.
I spend a great deal of time researching and reading these days, which I luckily quite enjoy. My topic of the week is human rights. In one of my subjects, we take turns leading the tutorials on juicy public health related topics. I volunteered for the first session next week, so am researching and writing a paper on whether human rights is central or peripheral to public health. Then next week I'll present in the tute and faciliate discussion on the topic. Should be good. Much more interesting than epidemiology and biostats (apologies to all my epidemiologist and statistician friends, but they're just not my cup of tea!). I love this type of topic because it touches ethics, equity, politics, philosophy, sociology, and law, and issues of poverty, racism, globalization, forced migration, infectious disease, torture and war. Gritty stuff. Perhaps I'll pass along some thoughts on the issues at some point, but for now I'm in researching mode. More soon.
I spend a great deal of time researching and reading these days, which I luckily quite enjoy. My topic of the week is human rights. In one of my subjects, we take turns leading the tutorials on juicy public health related topics. I volunteered for the first session next week, so am researching and writing a paper on whether human rights is central or peripheral to public health. Then next week I'll present in the tute and faciliate discussion on the topic. Should be good. Much more interesting than epidemiology and biostats (apologies to all my epidemiologist and statistician friends, but they're just not my cup of tea!). I love this type of topic because it touches ethics, equity, politics, philosophy, sociology, and law, and issues of poverty, racism, globalization, forced migration, infectious disease, torture and war. Gritty stuff. Perhaps I'll pass along some thoughts on the issues at some point, but for now I'm in researching mode. More soon.
posted by Dharma Mama at 11:40 PM
2 Comments:
g'day Renee! sounds like a thought-provoking program. very good to hear how it's all going. It looks much sunnier and kanga-rooier over there.
Hey Kim, good to hear from ya! Yep, the sun is still shining even though it's supposedly fall. Today there is a bit of cloud cover but that will pass by tomorrow and I will be back to tank-tops and flip-flops. They say it will get cold here, but I'm doubtful!
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