Goals

I am Diksha Thakur. I am a post graduate student currently pursuing Masters in Public Health from Manipal Academy for higher Education with background in Dental surgery and one year of rotatory internship. During under graduation, we had to study the various branches of Dentistry. One of these branches was Public health Dentistry which evoked my interest in investigating public health issues. Choosing MPH as a career will give me an opportunity to work as a Public Health Expert. This degree will offer me the required skill set. I like reading recent articles about innovation in health services around the globe and how these innovations are having a positive impact on the world.
I see myself working as an epidemiologist with organization. Working in field would help me enhance my knowledge and at the same time I would also gain experience in handling on field real time situation. I am really interested in investigation of an outbreak and working in surveillance programmes. Want to be the best public health expert and become financially stable. In this globalized world, what interest me is how connected we are in recent times which had its pros and cons in a way where we humans have created ways for pathogens to enter into human species and impact us in this huge manner with this pandemic. As we live in close proximity with the wildlife and which had made human-animal interactions. Also, may be due to food security issues, people are consuming animal products which are not meant to be consumed, creating paths for the pathogens into human species to address this issue, we need a sustainable intervention which is one health approach which collaborate humans, animals and environment health. As it is a recent approach so there is a lack of evidence-based research. So, would like to do PHD on the same.