Why Public Health? In our “Why Public Health?” series, we ask Harvard School of Public Health students to talk about why they chose to enter the field.
“ From a young age, I’ve always been interested in helping people. It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I realized I could combine my passion for science, my desire for creativity, and my strong need to help people into a single career. I’m interested in studying tuberculosis because two million people a year are killed by it and about a third of the world’s population is infected with it. Aside from that, very little is known about how the TB bacterium behaves. For a bench researcher, it’s wide-open territory. It’s a whole new world. And that’s really exciting.” —Jemila Kester, PhD ’17, Biological Sciences in Public Health
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Visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/why-public-health to watch videos with Jemila Kester and other students.