{"id":139,"date":"2018-03-07T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/?p=139"},"modified":"2018-03-08T05:19:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T05:19:23","slug":"student-testimonial-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/03\/07\/student-testimonial-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"MPH Student Testimonial (April 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Written by Luke Robertshaw,\u00a0Radiation Epidemiology Information Analyst at\u00a0Public Health England<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I came into the MPH (part-time) from the charity sector, not having worked directly in a public health role before. \u00a0The course has given me a good understanding of areas in which a public health professional can work and the kind of skills that are required.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of my first year, I was able to apply for some jobs in public health.\u00a0 I could put the modules I had already completed on my CV and used a number of the assignments as examples to meet person specifications, such as\u00a0HiHi\u00a0and\u00a0PEaS.\u00a0 When interviewing for my current job, the content of the MPH was extremely\u00a0valuable in helping me prepare a presentation at the interview that required understanding of epidemiological studies.<\/p>\n

I am now working as part of a team within Public Health England that manages two long-term epidemiological studies.\u00a0One is following up service personnel that were present at the British nuclear weapons tests in the 1950\u2019s and 60\u2019s, comparing the incidence of diseases with a similar control group that were not present at the tests.\u00a0 The other study is observing patterns of radiation exposure and disease among classified radiation workers in the nuclear industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  \u00a0 Written by Luke Robertshaw,\u00a0Radiation Epidemiology Information Analyst at\u00a0Public Health England I came into the MPH (part-time) from the charity sector, not having worked directly in a public health role before. \u00a0The course has given me a good understanding of areas in which a public health professional can work and the kind of skills … Continue reading “MPH Student Testimonial (April 2016)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}