Personal Statement Of Purpose For Public Health

Statement of Purpose
I can still remember those words, ‘When you are a clinician, you are saving a life, but when you are a public health personnel, you are saving thousands of lives at a time’, delivered by my professor in the orientation class of undergraduate Community Medicine course. That introductory speech was so motivating that I contemplated for a while, should I be in the ‘thousands life saver’ group? Though inspiring, that speech alone was not sufficient to grow my interest in public health. Day by day I felt the importance of public health while dealing with various patients as a clinician.
During my Intern period in the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, I managed a diverse type of diseases and realized that to delve into the depths

For this purpose, after completing my internship, I joined Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Bangladesh (OGSB), a very reputed NGO, which deals with maternal and child health issues of Bangladesh. At first, I worked as a medical officer in ‘Community-Based Skilled Birth Attendant (CSBA)’ project collaborating with the Government of Bangladesh and UNFPA. The aim of this project was to achieve the target of Millennium Development Goal 4 and 5, which was to reduce the child mortality (MDG 4) and to reduce the maternal mortality ratio along with improvement of maternal health (MDG 5). After completion of this project, I joined another project of OGSB on safe motherhood and this time in collaboration with Save the Children International and USAID. In this project, I trained the health workers, nurses, and physicians at the rural level about antenatal & postnatal care, normal delivery, partograph, and neonatal resuscitation. Not only as a master trainer, this time due to my managerial quality and convincing power, my supervisor selected me as the team leader of the training unit also. I believe this teaching experience will provide me some extra advantage in my future