MY PERSONAL STATEMENT – ZAMBIA APPLICANT FOR MPH

I strongly believe that I can make a difference in local and global public health by gaining further
knowledge and skills as a post graduate student. I could be gladder if I wound imparted with
knowledge and skills in: Bio-statistics, Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Research, to mention but a
few in your school of Public Health. As these would act as an optimal springboard upon which I
might achieve my goals. I look to the University and a role model, therefore, for advancement of
our public health system in Zambia.

Traditionally speaking, public health has only existed as an academic discipline as part of
medical school. This has resulted in serious shortages of public health experts: biostatisticians,
epidemiologists, and health policy-makers while medical doctors with only superficial training in
public health are still the only professors to teach the subject in Zambia. If given the opportunity
to study in your valuable program, I am confident that I will be selected to continue to my
studies at the PHD level so as to contribute to the advancement of Public Health as an
independent academic discipline in my country.

Another reason why I want to study with your University is that, I have been looking for an
affordable school to study with and I feel, I will get it with you.

I am Bachelor of Science holder in Nursing, getting a job both in government and as well outside
have been difficult from 2016. As results I have to enhance my skill and knowledge to
effectively compete on the job market. Under his guidance, the study of medicine became much
more than curing patients one at a time. I hope to be accepted to your world-class Master’s in
Public Health Program at the University so that I might learn from some of the finest instructors
in the world.

I could not be more certain that your particularly distinguished MPH program at the University is
the optimal springboard upon which I might achieve my goals. First, your program has a very
low student-to-faculty ratio; and the subsequent attention from and ability to easily interact with
the faculty. I plan to become an epidemiologist who is especially accomplished at the analysis of
risk factors that negatively affect our mental health, so that unnecessary deaths – especially
suicide – can be prevented. It troubles me and I am at pains that we focus on treating the

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symptoms, instead of directly addressing many of the causal factors for mental illness, stress,
depression, suicide and stigma. Depression accounts for nearly half of these health problems.
The statistics clearly show a need for preventive measures in dealing with suicide and mental
illness. I like to think that we can prevent these diseases, especially for the young, with advanced
public mental health strategies.

In my case, I look forward to playing a central role in the realization of dramatic public health
success stories in the area of mental health , biostatistics and epidemiology, in light of and in
response to the unique challenges, stressors, and cultural factors – for better or for worse – that
serve to define our horizons in the advance of public health practice.

I thank you for considering my application to your unparalleled MPH program at the University