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Select Program in Public Health Student Wins 2007 KaiserEDU.org Essay Contest
Robert Nelb, a B.A.-M.P.H. candidate in the Select Program in Public Health, tied for first place in the undergraduate portion of the 2007 KaiserEDU.org first annual essay contest. Nearly 250 graduate and undergraduate students entered the contest by preparing memos proposing a health care platform and communication strategy as a senior advisor to an actual or a fictitious 2008 presidential candidate. KaiserEDU.org is the Kaiser Family Foundation's Web site for students and faculty interested in health policy. "It was a great honor to be selected for this award," remarked Nelb, "but the real challenge will be implementing my plan to provide comprehensive health care to all Americans. Nelb will be a senior at Yale College in the fall. He is an Ethics, Politics, and Economics major. Nelb will also begin studying at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) in the fall as part of the Select Program, a five-year joint degree program offering students the opportunity to earn a Bachelor's degree from Yale College while obtaining a Masters of Public Health degree from YSPH. He will be pursuing his M.P.H. in Health Management. His research interests focus on ways to transform the health care system from a "sick care" system that concentrates on treating people after they are sick to a true "health care system" that works to prevent disease. He is conducting research on obesity with an emphasis on diabetes and is working on diabetes prevention and control at the New York City Department of Health. Currently, Nelb is finishing a book on careers in public health with Linda Degutis, Dr.PH. '94, M.S.N. '82, associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine) at the Yale School of Medicine and associate professor of public health in the division of Environmental Health Sciences at YSPH. This summer, he did a comparative study of health care reform in Europe. He writes a bi-weekly column about public health for the Yale Daily News, has organized a coalition of Yale College students interested in public health, and is advocating a health studies major. To read Robert Nelb's essay, please visit the KaiserEDU.org web site. -Story by Marcie Foley |
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