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2007-2008 Academic Year Kicked Off with Dean’s Barbecue

Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Dean of Public Health, Chair and C-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health begun the 2007-2008 academic year by hosting a barbecue for Yale School of Pubic Health (YSPH) students, faculty and staff on September 5.

The barbecue was held on the first day of classes following the three day student orientation program for the incoming class.  It allowed students the opportunity to relax and mingle with one another as well as with faculty and staff.  The new class is comprised of 86 promising public health professionals hailing from 22 states and 15 countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

“The Yale School of Public Health offered an experience which was the paragon of everything I was seeking from graduate study abroad,” said Yuna Lee, an incoming M.P.H. student in the Health Management Program, who came to YSPH from Perth, Western Australia.  “The School is a gateway to the world’s best thinking and thinkers in public health, and skillfully balances a strong foundation in academic excellence with a dynamic cutting edge approach to new ideas.”

Ms. Lee is a YSPH Student Ambassador.  The School’s Student Ambassadors are student volunteers who help with on campus events, take prospective students to lunch when visiting as well as communicate with newly admitted students in their division or program.  “The School has sincerely cared about the personal and professional development of each of us, and constantly inspires us to reconnect with the passions that led us to this field in the first place,” Lee noted.  “I have felt so welcome and supported by the school, that I honestly feel I could achieve anything that I have ever imagined, with their never failing guidance.”

Lee, who will study health management, plans to return to Australia to apply what she has learned at YSPH to create a positive change in her local healthcare system, benefiting a community that is in need.  Lee comes to YSPH with a Bachelor of Health Science and a Bachelor of Commerce obtained from the University of Western Australia.

Please view the Fall 2007 incoming class profile.

-Story by Marcie Foley