Honestly, I love research, but I think it’s really important to do research that has a direct applicable context. So it needs to be practical, it needs to be something that addresses a concern of a community, it needs to be something that is informed by the community ... that allows you to ultimately affect policy to improve people’s health and access to services and access to prevention. One could just sit in an office and do projects that are perfectly sound but don’t necessarily have a direct impact, and I think that is one of the strengths of public health, that it really does emphasize this application of knowledge in a real-world setting.

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Name

Pia

Title

Graduate Student

Divisions

• Bloomberg School of Public Health