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I am Louise.

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I am a part-time student on the Master's in Public Health

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course at Warwick Medical School here at Warwick University,

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and alongside studying the masters in public health.

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I'm an advanced public health practitioner at Worcestershire

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County Council in the mental wellbeing team.

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And I'm just going into my final year with the masters.

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The reason that the course stuck out to me in comparison

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to the other courses that I saw was

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because there was a module on mental wellbeing,

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which really fit with my career,

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but also just a really interesting area

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that wasn't available on a lot of the other courses.

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One of the best things that I realized when I arrived was

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just a variety of students on the course from lots

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of different backgrounds, lots of different experience.

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So that was really enriching for a lot

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of the discussions that we had.

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Um, but I've also really enjoyed some of the modules.

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So my favorite module so far has been the mental wellbeing

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module, um, partly

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because it was just really fascinating to have

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that academic angle on the module compared to the work

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that I do day to day.

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And I'm also really looking forward

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to the global health module, especially

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because it's multidisciplinary.

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So we get to work with some of the engineering students,

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which is really

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unique for me.

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I think it's been really helpful to step

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outside my work bubble, be exposed to different areas

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of public health,

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and be able to realize that I can incorporate that at

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that actually into the work that I do kind of day to day.

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Well, the course has been fantastic

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at broadening my skills in different areas of public health.

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So that will hopefully allow me to jump from kind

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of department, from department, be able

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to do work across different portfolios,

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which I haven't been able to do so far

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because I've been relying on my experience in one area.

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So that's the best thing for me.

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I think that, um,

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I'm gonna focus on my professional projects, so hoping

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to do something around climate change and then try

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and just use, um, the knowledge that I get from kind

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of the modules to enhance the work that I'm doing

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because I'm in a job that I really love.

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So for me, it's about just being able to kind of enrich

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what I'm doing, be able to get a bit more variety.