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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]International health is different than international development. I am not saying they have not been impacted, but I would not discourage a young person from entering that field.[/quote]

I would absolutely discourage any young person from getting an (expensive) degree with the intention of getting a job in the public or nonprofit sector. International health is a fine goal, but the way to go about it is to get some hard skills in actual healthcare (MD, RN) or a related field (engineering, construction, logistics) and then use that to get internships and experience in international settings. Sorry but the world does not need more MPHs or SAIS grads. [/quote]

I’m not disagreeing with you but it seems like the field also will need people with statistical and data analytics skills.  I’m just thinking about things like Ebola or the next pandemic.  You need doctors to treat it and researchers to develop treatments and vaccines but you also need the folks with the data skills to project where and how it will spread, etc.  I thought that’s what the public health degrees were for.  It seems like without lupine people developing these skills we will be screwed for the next pandemic, no?   [/quote]

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