The public health topic that I am most interested in is nutrition/malnutrition. It has been my most favorite since doing political research as am undergrad. I did one paper on Child Hunger in Niger and another on First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move Initiative. Nutrition is highly important to children because it helps them to grow up strong, fully develop, and to focus in school. Unfortunately, in Niger, Africa, that is a big problem and still is. According to UNICEF, children under the age of 5, at the population of 356,324 of them had malnutrition last year. The biggest issue with this was that a lot of the children had vitamin A deficiencies which causes the children to have fatigue, blindness, and the inability for their little bodies to fight off infections. A lot of children are not able to go to school and miss out on their education.
For the future, this information can help me to better understand ways to help women who are going through this specific area. 5 years from now I hope to be working in the hospital setting doing early intervention development services. Then later move into working for the Maternal & Child Health Bureau. I want to use my experience and research to help women nationally and internationally to help keep children and their families be safe and feel healthy. That is at least what should every child should deserve in this lifetime.
Resource
http://www.unicef.org/appeals/niger.html
http://nutrition.about.com/od/therapeuticnutrition1/a/Vitamin-A-Deficiency.htm
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