“There are so many ways different countries handle the same health related issue and therefore I need to have an open mind”. Emmanuel Ifubaraboye Taribo MIPH student
Emmanuel Ifubaraboye Taribo
our african students African students from Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, Liberia, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Sierra Leone are currently undertaking their post graduate degrees at Sydney Medical School. Their degree courses varied from Graduate Diploma in Public Health to Master of Science in Medicine (STD/HIV). Here we profile just two of our African students.
Emmanuel Ifubaraboye Taribo Emmanuel is a young doctor from Nigeria who was nominated by the Federal Ministry of Health to be a beneficiary of an Australian Development Scholarship. While browsing the internet for Australian Universities, he found that the Masters of International Public Health course was one of the courses offered by the University of Sydney. “I graduated with a Medical degree, but after practicing for a year, I realised that I had no interest in clinical practice”, says Emmanuel, “instead, I developed an interest in public health. I’ve always had an interest in doing public health in order to have a broader knowledge on how to overcome the health related challenges in my country. “ Emmanuel worked at the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health before coming to Australia to study where he was involved in monitoring and evaluation of government health programs in malaria, HIV and AIDS, TB, safe motherhood, all directed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals. “While undertaking this task, I felt programs lacked the technical capacity to implement their activities and therefore developed a passion to be on the field implementing rather than plan to evaluate from the national level”, says Emmanuel. Emmanuel found writing academic essays a tough challenge but one that he has overcome. “Undertaking research to
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