November Blog Post

 TOTAL SEMESTER volunteering hours : 14 hours 


Volunteering hours: 2hr 

I attended a meeting as part of the public health organization I am a part of called RESULTS. The National Webinar discussed the importance of Letters to the Editor and Op-Eds to obtain media coverage and enable widespread sharing of information about infectious diseases and poverty.  A letter to the editor should be structured in a specific way and must be very concise, as most newspapers only allow 250-word long submissions. RESULTS recommends that volunteers begin the letters with a call to action; one of the current actions would be for Congress to pass the End TB now act before the end of the year. Then, the letter must include the importance of the issue and why it matters. This part can include examples, relevant data, and a story to make the facts more credible. The letter should end with a local or timely hook that connects the issue to something relevant to the community you are living in. 

My goal for the month of December as part of being a member of RESULTS is to write a Letter to the Editor to the New Orleans and the Dallas local newspaper to shed light on the HIV/AIDS epidemic that is still currently endemic in many low-income countries. 

Another one of my goals is to set up a meeting with the newly elected member of congress for district 30 who I am the contact person for, to introduce RESULTS to her team, and present the legislation and the importance of it being passed in the house of representatives. 

Curriculum

This month, I enjoyed learning about renal and pulmonary physiology and medical pharmacology, as well as the cardiovascular module. The cardiovascular module was relatively challenging and required significant studying, but I was able to grasp the concepts and assimilate them in time for the exam. 

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