The master programme in International Community Health gave Ruben Jervell Pettersen valuable insight and practice when it comes to understanding, dissecting and tackling big health issues that are threatening people’s health on a global, societal and individual scale.
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– Through the master programme in International Community Health, I acquired broad and solid research methodology fundaments and analytical skills. These skills are essential to the research project I now work on at the Institute of Psychology.
– I had an excellent opportunity to attend different courses in literature review, research methodologies, and protocol writing during my study period at the master programme in International Community Health. All this I find very helpful in my current job.
Viva Combs Thorsen was the top choice when CDC hired an epidemiologist despite the federal civilian hiring freeze instituted by President Trump. She will entail collaborating at the policy level, using data within an epidemiological level, and programmatic level in seven countries.
Cynthia Wangamati developed a research proposal on sexual violence with the help of her supervisors and got funding for her PhD from a GLOBVAC grant at the Research Council of Norway.
From being a lecturer and researcher of public health in the Faculty of Medicine, Mekelle University, to working for the Norwegian Center for Minority Health Research (NAKMI).
I really enjoyed studying with international students. We learned so much about each other, and the fact that we all came from various backgrounds made the discussions lively and interesting.
From nurse-midwife through master and Phd-studies to becoming the youngest General Director of Health in the Gambia. Hard work and steady focus pays off.
I now understand with greater clarity the relationship between group health and individual health, that is of public health and conventional medicine.
The best thing that happened was that I was able to carry out my research in Ethiopia. I brought my kids and my husband and we shared the best experience of our life.
I thought it was very nice to communicate with others from different backgrounds. Also, I really enjoyed getting help from professors and classmates. Living in Norway was clean, quiet and impressive. I returned to my home country and continued to work at Jiangsu CDC, which is where I worked before I came to Norway.