I am a 27-year-old woman who was born and raised in Tripoli, Libya. I hold a BS degree in Anesthesia and Intensive Care from Alfateh University (2005). I want very much to continue my education while I am still young and full of energy, and I now have the fullest level of maturity that will enable me to give my all to my studies. XXXX’s full time Critical Care Master's Program is ideal for my professional interests and would serve as an excellent foundation for me to contribute to critical and emergency care in Libya. I am especially interested in doing research in the future in mechanical ventilation and its indications for ICU patients, especially optimal weaning times from mechanical ventilation. 10 years from now I would like to be making important contributions to a new health care system rising from the ashes of the dictatorial regime. We have a lot of hope and optimism in Libya that the new political forces in control in post-Ghaddafi Libya will be cooperative in building new health care institutions that are more democratic in their function. From 2006 through 2010 I worked full time in the ICU as an Anesthesia Technician at XXXX Obstetric Hospital. Throughout this same period, I also worked part time at XXXX Private Hospital as an ICU technician. I learned a great deal working in Intensive Care and enjoyed very much teaching what I had learned to medical students, helping them to learn how to take care of ICU patients. I was able to master complex procedures such as Arterial Blood Gases, Air Way Management, CPR, and anesthesia preparations in the ICU and Operation Room. I look forward to sharing some of my experiences in your program, comparing notes with other health care workers from many other parts of the world. Among my more exciting adventures thus far has been flying to Tunisia in an air ambulance with two patients that had been severely injured in a traffic accident. In fact, I had to struggle to keep them alive until we got to the hospital in the capital of Tunisia. In 2010, I traveled to the USA and stayed for more than one year, mostly studying Intensive English at the University of XXXX. I now feel confident that I would be able to excel in graduate school in English and I am extremely excited about having the opportunity to prove myself. I want to thank you for considering my application to your esteemed program. Critical Care Health Administration Personal Statement

I have recently completed an MBA degree program with XXXX University during which I have acquired significant skills and knowledge that have enabled me to rise in the company that I work for to my current position of Managing Director. I have over 30 years' business experience and lead a company with a turnover of over $1.5 billion and employing 2,700 people. My goal in pursuing the DBA degree is to progress to an extraordinarily successful leadership role in a large, international, and diverse enterprise. I also seek to be an effective teacher of advanced business skills and an effective mentor to young managers. My father was a teacher, and his greatest delight was to see his pupils succeed. I seem to have inherited this characteristic as I also take joy from the success of those I have helped to train and develop. I am a volunteer mentor/advisor to students preparing to leave school for advanced education helping them to make appropriate academic and professional choices. Within my company, I draw enormous satisfaction from identifying and helping talented employees to fulfill their potential, for instance we have former clerks who have risen to become successful senior managers. The company also assists in training new graduates in cooperation with local universities and so far, forty-five graduates have benefited from the training program. Several of these graduates were employed in the company and are now successful managers. The programmed will enable me to assist in providing advanced business education to those who are ‘aiming high’ in the world of business and have the potential to achieve ambitious goals. Having completed the MBA by ‘distance learning’, I am aware that successful completion of the DBA program will require a remarkably high level of commitment and sacrifice over a significant period. I have proved my ability to undertake rigorous academic work autonomously and successfully and I confirm that I am fully prepared to make the necessary commitment to excel within the programmed and undertake to participate enthusiastically within it for my own benefit and that of the academic community and the wider world of business. It is also my hope to extend the type and number of worldwide business contacts that I have acquired during my participation in the MBA program. It has been a joy to be able to share insights and experiences with students with a wide variety of backgrounds and specialties. I feel privileged that I have helped other students with difficult business decisions and have benefited from the advice given to me. For instance, comparing the merits and disadvantages of our methods of evaluating employee performance, resulted in a revision of our own process that is proving to be extraordinarily successful. I also developed an idea that originated from discussions with fellow students, and this has resulted in the setting up of a new business venture that has been very profitable for my company. I have travelled very widely, having visited thirteen countries during business in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. I have a good understanding of the variety of business cultures and the need to be sensitive to the differences that exist. I enjoy interacting with people from a wide variety of cultural and social backgrounds. I have also learned that useful and current business information can be gleaned from unlikely sources; the taxi driver, who mentions that his brother’s haulage business is doing very well, may have provided a more useful indicator of the state of a local economy than published official information that is several months old. Naturally, XXXX is my first choice of DBA program because of programmed has provided such positive learning experience in so many ways most especially in that the Student Advisors always provided excellent support and as the programmed content was highly relevant to my work. I did research other available courses but am drawn to the structure of the XXXX University programmed and module topics that are closely aligned to my own interests and which are so highly relevant to the challenges that modern business presents. I have a special interest in leadership and hope to undertake a ‘Doctoral Development Plan’ related to this subject. Although I have not yet decided on the specifics of a project, which I hope to develop with the assistance of faculty members, I am attracted by the idea of analyzing the leadership ethos and techniques of one or two specific business leaders and establishing how far their methods may be transferable. I am aware that successful leaders recognize their own limitations and weaknesses and find ways to ensure that they are counterbalanced in their choice of team members. I believe that those characteristics that have resulted in my professional and academic success to date will enable me to ‘add significant value’ to the academic community and to the stock of business knowledge. I have reached my current role by being hard working and always striving to improve; being intellectually curious; possessing excellent communication skills; being willing to share my skills and knowledge with others and seeking to benefit from theirs; and being highly positive but realistic about myself and others. However, the thing that provides the firmest foundation for success in the programmed is a genuine passion for business and in acquiring the very highest level of knowledge about its successful operation and to sharing that knowledge as widely as possible. DBA Personal Purpose Statement Examples

A dentist from Saudi Arabia, now 28 years old, I completed dental School in my country in 2011 which was followed by a one-year internship at the dental clinic of the College of Dentistry at XXXX University, from which I graduated and where I continue to be employed as a Demonstrator. I am also the Supervisor of our Community Dentistry Unit and serve as Vice Dean. I am applying to your distinguished program in Public Health at XXXX University because of the way in which your program is famous globally and recognized as one of the finest and most international programs in public health in the world. I feel strongly that earning the MPH Degree in your particularly highly esteemed MPH Program at XXXX University would inspire and empower me to make my maximum contribution to my society as an oral health professional. I am held in high esteem by my supervisors and colleagues primarily because I am such a hard worker. Completing your program would enable me to advance both within and beyond my career as a dentist in Saudi Arabia, to mature and come to better understand oral health issues from international perspectives as well as to think creatively about oral health issues in the context of Saudi Arabia most specifically as well as the larger Middle East region. Research is fundamental to the way in which I see my future and I look forward to many decades to come laboring to excel in this area. I am currently assisting Dr. XXXX and his colleagues with research in several areas of oral health care from the visually impaired or blind to the eating habits and lifestyles of parents whose children are obese. I especially look forward to being trained at XXXX University because of your diverse student population from all over the world, learning from my peers as well as your distinguished faculty, from their examples and testimonies about the public health struggles that they face as well in their home countries. I look forward to exchanging ideas about our public health struggles and challenges on a global level, so that we can learn together, networking and collaborating, building ties that will last for a lifetime, sharing creative ideas for progressive evolution in the health care sectors in which we work in our respective countries. The community projects in which I havee been engaged over the last 2-3 years include the following: dental education program emphasizing fluoride application in XXXX Primary School, Feb. 2015; Developing Healthy Smile Program; health promotion and education program, for Jazan City National Guard, 2014/2015; Participated in International Volunteer Day with Medical Committee for ____, 2014; 8th Volunteer Health Camp organized by KAMC and WAM, Makkah. Oct 2014; Saudi National Day Celebration, September 29-30, 2014.Yslam Fmk exhibition With Saudi Dental Society, July 16-18,2014; World Day of Oral Health with Faculty of Dentistry, XXXX University, March 20,2014; Saudi Red Crescent in volunteer work for hajj. July-October 2012. I also completed a training program in the treatment of compromised patients at GRASH Medical Clinic private. I seek further academic preparation in public health with a special focus on Saudi Arabia because I crave the challenge entailed in the struggle to drastically reduce our extremely high rates of oral decay, primarily through efforts in public health education with an emphasis on oral health. Since I have become a dentist in Saudi Arabia, I have become increasingly disturbed by the way in which we now see increasing numbers of cases of oral cancer in younger as well as older patients. The dental profession still has a long way to go and a lot of work to do in Saudi Arabia not only caring for cancer victims but also collaborating with public health officials in the constant and ongoing search for to uncover the carcinogens in our environment. This is the area of study in which I seek to specialize in your program. New initiatives to protect public health in Saudi Arabia are especially important given the substantial number of international visitors that we receive, particularly those coming each year on pilgrimage to Hajj and Orma in Makah as well as during the month of Ramadan. I am convinced that earning the MPH Degree at Johns Hopkins University will help me to make important contributions to the advancement of public health in my country, particularly in oral health and oral health care information, making it more readily available. My long-term goal is to someday establish a dental research center in Saudi Arabia along with colleagues from a variety of different disciplines and specialties within our field. Thank you for considering my application. MPH Personal Purpose Statement Oral Health

My country, Saudi Arabia, is very wealthy however it still suffers a shortage of highly qualified specialist physicians in many areas. Although advanced in most areas of general healthcare provision, research in public health services is not so well advanced in comparison with those of other wealthy economies and I urgently want to help to ‘fill that gap’. I entered medicine because I wanted to ‘make a difference’ rather than merely ‘make a living’ and feel that my work to date has partly fulfilled that ambition. However, my experience to date has also convinced me that I can make much more difference to the health of my compatriots, by being part of a ‘high level’ solution to the country’s unique health problems. It is my intention to help more people by extending my own training into the vital area of public health, and subsequently by helping to develop effective public health programs and in training other physicians in my country to do the same. My particular interest is in health promotion and disease prevention, especially as it relates to the population of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia suffers some public health issues, the effects of which are becoming increasingly apparent and require highly motivated and knowledgeable physicians to counter at a remarkably prominent level. As instances of the problems faced in the country: a high proportion of the population still use tobacco and heavy smoking is common with predictable effects on health; the population is increasingly obese and consequently diabetes, which has long been a major problem in the country, is becoming even more prevalent. Our hospitals also deal with unusually high numbers of car accident trauma victims because of the standards of driver training and driving skills. This certainly does not tell the whole story of the local problems but clearly indicates the need for high level interventions in many areas of health education. I would be particularly interested in assisting in research relating to health education relating to diabetes prevention and in the relative effectiveness of the diverse ways in which health education materials are presented to the public. I have thought very carefully about my personality and professional potential before submitting this application. I am aware that this specialism calls for a special kind of physician, one who possesses a natural inquisitiveness, analytical skills of a very high order, an ability to persuade by presenting information in easily understandable but compelling ways to non-clinicians involved in the decisions to act in public health matters and a readiness to cooperate as a team member with people from many professions and medical specialties. I am confident that I possess these characteristics. I am a confident and successful trainer. I get along easily with others and am incredibly happy to work as a member of a team. I enjoy gathering and analyzing information and have a natural tendency to try to recognize the underlying causes of identified problems and their practical solutions. I am not widely travelled but look forward to interacting with colleagues from other countries, cultures, and backgrounds. I can promise very enthusiastic, committed, and diligent participation in the program and look forward to sharing insights that I have gained in my professional life to date and in benefiting from those of my fellow students. MPH Master’s Public Health Personal Purpose Statement

When teaching pre-school children, I became aware that communication problems in children are much more common than I had suspected that there are insufficient trained people to deal with the situation especially in a bi-cultural setting and that the failure to offer effective and early intervention has potentially fatal effects on a child’s prospects. I decided to become part of the solution to this problem, specifically in early intervention to minimize the effects of such problems. My goals now are to join and excel within the program to enable me to offer services as a speech and language pathologist. Specifically, I hope to develop effective programs to help young bi-lingual children to attain and maintain dual language proficiency; such programs would have applications beyond the Spanish/English bilingual environment and be of potential benefit to all bi-cultural communities. began work as a bilingual Early Intervention Therapist in 2004 and since then have been certified as an Infant Toddler Family Specialist. From day one, I loved the work. I was privileged to work with children with many types of problem, but I developed a special love of working with Down’s syndrome sufferers and this fired a decision to pursue a master's degree in Speech Language Pathology so that I could help them more effectively. Having obtained the degree, I created my own Early Intervention Agency in 2006. The Agency serves children from ages 0-3 who have been diagnosed with developmental delays and we have had the joy and privilege of assisting over four hundred children, from the Hispanic community, suffering a variety of conditions including Cerebral Palsy, Down’s syndrome, and autism. Running the Agency has also required me to develop management and motivational skills and the ability to lead an effective team. I am aware that the program will attract many professionally qualified applicants. However, I am an excellent candidate. I have demonstrated the academic ability to profit from the program; I have degrees that are highly relevant to the topics to be studied; I have substantial experience of working with children with many types of communication problems in a bilingual setting; I have experience of assisting in successful research. But my main recommendation is a passionate desire to help my clients and their families and the determination to acquire the skills and knowledge to maximize my effectiveness in their service. MA Education Personal Purpose Communication Disorders

I hope to be selected to earn the master's degree in public health in the United States, which will inspire and enable me to achieve a more global appreciation of the issues that we face today. Now a well-trained and highly motivated epidemiologist in my country, Saudi Arabia, I seek further, advanced training, with an eye to making my own talents and contribution increasingly international, addressing global issues, and helping to advance our profession in Saudi Arabia and beyond. I have served as a public health and epidemiology professional in a variety of areas: including mass gatherings, trauma, oncology, pharmaceutical services, etc. Familiar with the policies and procedures of health care settings in Saudi Arabia, I am also an accomplished writer of research proposals and grant writing, manuscript submissions, and skilled at scientific writing and reporting. Proficient in innovative software programs, I am committed to doing all that I can to improve global public health. Over the course of the past two years, 2 things have been foremost in my mind, climate change and COVID-19. Saudi Arabia is one of the hottest places on earth, with temperatures now frequently rising above 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade. Under direct sunlight, it is much hotter. It was hot when I was a child, but not this hot: I feel it every day, read about it, and I am deeply concerned that the entire world is in trouble because of unchecked climate change, which I fear will have widespread and disastrous consequences for global public health. Along with many others in my field, my worst nightmare is that COVID-19 is itself related to climate change and the destruction of natural habitats; and that COVID-19 will not be the last virus to emerge and kill millions of people in the not-too-distant future. I ask for acceptance to an MPH program in America so that I will be prepared to help, assuming an increasing level of responsibility as my career progresses. I seek additional advanced training to make my maximum contribution to public health for many decades to come, always with a focus on Epidemiology primarily, especially in the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia in particular. The extreme heat itself has major public health consequences, not just in Saudi Arabia, but throughout the region. There are days where it is even hotter in Iraq than our country, and they have fewer resources to deal with the public health issues that arise because of these novel and deadly temperatures. After my graduation, I completed a full-year internship for the first 6 months at KAIMRC, one of the largest research centers in the KSA. I also served at the Saudi Biobank and finished the last 7 months at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center. Working for the Ministry of Health and serving in hospitals has polished all my most valuable skills, which will help me to succeed in your program from day one.  I am pleased that I serve as a Teaching Assistant from the same university from which I graduated, Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University (GPA of 4.84 out of five “first class honors”). I am pleased to report that my university sees me as a solid investment and is thus paying for my graduate education in America. My first professional position was with the government’s Ministry of Population Health and the second was with the Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine. This second position set my mind on a process of globalization - where I ceased to think of health issues as existing only in a local context. Global Health issues will always play a significant role in my efforts to contribute to Public Health in the future, especially with respect to research. I began working at the center as a volunteer, helping with data entry and cleaning as an undergraduate. I could not have been more pleased to have later been offered a professional position. I currently have five publications in different areas with different teams, learning a great deal from each project, task, and team members. Two more are under review. I have a variety of research interests centered mostly on global health social determinants of health, with special attention to epidemiology. I have discovered that I am most fond of teaching, and I look forward to returning to the classroom when I return to Saudi Arabia, wrestling with contemporary issues for new generations, always giving my all to research and laboring to development countermeasures to threats to public health that present themselves. Finally, I like to think of myself in the future as a role model for young Saudi women in search of careers in public health in a new Saudi Arabia where women will have much greater opportunity to compete with their male counterparts with a level playing field. I believe this program will empower me to become an asset to the program as I give my all to these most critical studies. If I could have any position that I wanted in the future, I would select the first female Saudi Minister of Health. Thank you for considering my application. MPH Personal Purpose Statement Saudi #mph #personalstatement

My central goal is to become the finest multilingual and multicultural SLP Therapist possible. As a young Pakistani woman raised entirely in Canada, it was not easy for me to get the courage to attend graduate school in our native Pakistan rather than Canada; but I did it. Now that I have earned my Master’s Degree in Speech LS peach-Language in Pakistan, I am more fully bilingual and possess an possessional capacity in Urdu that will be most helpful when working in the future both with the children of Pakistani immigrants to Canada, but also back in Pakistan, teaching Speech Language Pathology in Urdu as well as English. My grandmother was a significant insignificant in my life and my development. She was another reason I woe Pakistan to complete my first master's degree so that I could spend time with her since she was ill. I have a long way to go, but I am convinced that I would be able to succeed as a multilingual, international, Speech Language Pathologist and researcher in this area. I intend to earn my second master's degree in the same place, so placebo will prepare me fully and be able to practice in Canada, my home country. McGill University is my first choice for earning my master's degree in Canada in Communication Sciences & Disorders because your program excellence and a sterling reputation for personal and professional goals are primarily essentially. Young, single, and entirely devoted to my career, I live for little else at this time in my life but becoming a successful Clinical Speech-Language Pathologist treating communication disorders. While studying in Pakistan, I was faced with great challenges in assessing and treating communication disorders, especially language disorders. Many of the problems we had to overcome in Pakistan were due to an acute lack of resources available for assessing and treating disorders among Urdu speakers, especially material geared towards the Urdu language. I hope to address this significant lack and help develop assessment and treatment materials in Urdu in the future. Often in Pakistan, I found myself struggling to determine the specifics of a language disorder in a patient. This was especially true with language disorders. I had to sort it all out on my own, the complex ways in which would manifest their difficulty in Urdu. Are language's morphology or syntax components involved in speech communication difficulties? Soon, however, I could determine Urdu language development milestones with re regarding the child in question often missing. Sometimes, I would find myself troubled by how Pakistan tended to determine a child’s language development level according to the English language development standards in typical English-speaking children. I became increasingly fascinated by what I began to see as significant differences between English- and Urdu-language development and subsequently went on to write my master's Thesis on this subject: “Urdu Language Assessment for Children,” based partly on the work of Marion Blank. I look forward to several decades of intensive research, especially as it concerns SLP in our native Pakistan. I plan to devote my professional lifetime to studying the intersection between Urdu language acquisition and Speech Speech-Language and therapy, with unique particular to morphology and syntax on the one hand and stages of expression on the other. I find myself most intrigued by babbling at word stages 4 and 5. I look forward to conducting a longitudinal study with a combination of naturalistic sampling and semi-structured elicitation to collect data. Being accepted into your Communication Sciences and Disorders - language acquisition –program at McGill will enable me to continue my work on Urdu language acquisition. I hope to create a standardized language assessment test for speakers of Urdu. There has been very little research on Urdu language development; thus, the need is great for establishing standards and stages of language acquisition in Urdu upon which to base a proper diagnosis – standardized assessment tools to accurately diagnose language disorders could help to spread awareness about language disorders amongst the Pakistani population as there is little awareness understanding subject matter and those who are affected are usually shunned and sidelined, not allowed to participate in society. On the one hand, there is an intimate relationship between my experience and training. My proposed research is currently working towards the creation of a non-profit organization which I plan to register shortly, named Izhaar ('to express' in Urdu), to spread awareness of communication disorders and provide funds for those who cannot afford therapy. My long long-term to start a clinic in Pakistan that assesses and provides therapy treatment income individuals presenting with complications in their communication or swallowing. I will soon be developing a state-of-the-art website for this organization that will list all SLP services available throughout Pakistan. I will describe each communication disorder and invite people to write blogs about their struggles with disorders, patients, and their families, and SLPs. I am driven to help people with communication disorders regardless of their economic status. I want to help establish the field of SLP in Pakistan and spread awareness about communication disorders, in underdeveloped nations as well. I would like some to take my non-profit to an international level someday awareness campaigns in other Asian countries challenges like those faced by Pakistan. My preferred supervisor at McGill University would be Elin Thordardottir, given h, er distinguished and fascinating record of accomplishment in creating disorders among multilingual children. In addition to my extensive volunteer experience in this area, I also have extensive research experience in SLP. I completed two major research projects as a Pakistan graduate student before authoring my thesis, for which I developed an Urdu language assessment tool for children aged 3-6. I am passionate about making my unique union to the field of SLP. Being accepted to the innovative program at McGill University will be the crowning achievement of my life that will serve as the optimal springboard to propel my SLP career forward for decades to come. Thank you for considering my application. 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I am a 33-year-old Iranian-Hungarian woman, a product of a marriage between these two cultures and languages. And I am a medical doctor, trained at the Semmelwiese University of Medicine in Budapest, Hungry in an all-English program. After graduating, I worked as a physician in our public hospital system in Iran. One of the reasons why I seek a career in public health is that I would like to use my native tongues professionally, both Hungarian and Farsi, in some professional capacity in the future. I look forward to at some point doing outreach in public health to both countries, examining comparative models, successes, and failures through my involvement with a broad variety of NGOs. I hope to teach public health at some point and would especially like to do so in Iran, my native land; if political conditions might someday permit me to do so. I also have intermediate abilities in Arabic, which could come in quite useful as well for international work in public health issues in the Middle East. I am concerned with women’s health issues and hope to make this a priority aspect of much of the research to which I look forward to devoting myself in your program. Since permanently relocating to the United States several years ago, I have served as a Visiting Scholar at several university-based research institutes. I have also had the opportunity to get to know large parts of the United States. Prior to coming to America, I was able to become acquainted with much of Europe. I have always been thankful that I received my medical training in English because this has served as an excellent platform in the years since then for me to build on. I have always thought about medicine in English, yet I very much enjoyed practicing it in Farsi, Iran. After graduating with my medical degree in Hungary, I then went home to Iran, where I spent a full year as a Triage Physician in an emergency room. Thus, I felt like I was able to give something back to my country of origin in Iran and despite enjoying practicing emergency medicine, I decided to go back to Hungary where I could continue to study and expand my professional potential. I finished one year of study toward the Ph.D. in the Department of Pathology and Experimental Oncology at the same university where I received my medical degree. I left my studies, however, to accept a research position as a Visiting Scholar in the United States with the XXXX Cancer Center at the University of XXXX Medical Center where I worked under Dr. XXXX, investigating biomarkers with respect to staging, grading, progression and responding to therapy in patients who suffer from melanoma. Currently, I work as a Research Data Analyst at Transplant Institute of XXXX University. I also had the honor of serving as a Postdoctoral Research visiting Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics of XXXX Medical School, as well as a research fellow in the Department of Human Virology HIV Center at the University of XXXX’s Medical School. I possess extensive scientific experience, as I have worked on a variety of projects related to immunology, molecular biology, and pathology. I am proficient in various research techniques that are most useful for tissue and cell culture research, immuno-histo-chemistry, immuno-cyto-chemistry, DNA extracting and PCR, flowcytometry, Blood processing, Ficoll separation etc. I have also worked with animals, and I am proficient at performing basic microsurgeries. My recent experience in clinical research and my clinical understanding will empower me to excel in your program as a researcher. I am a hard worker that is accustomed to long hours and would be deeply honored to have the opportunity to assist with research in your distinguished program. Since my arrival in the United States and beginning my work with Dr. XXXX, I have been amazed by the profundity of his knowledge and the way that this results in the optimal treatment plan development for each patient. I would also like to teach at some point in my career and it is especially in this area that Dr. XXXX most excels, as a teacher. He is my primary role model so far in my professional career because of his art at teaching fellows and treating his patients at the same time. I especially admire the way that he is always open to new and better methods of treatment while he places a premium on patient safety and satisfaction. I hope to make Dr. ____ proud of me as a professional in Public Health. I have also been inspired to pursue a career in public health because of the deep privilege that I have had of learning from Dr. XXXX. Helping with his research projects has provided new depths to my understanding of the myriad ways that demographic and socio-economy factors play especially critical roles in disease propagation and/or prevention/treatment, as well as progression outcome. In other words, I have become addicted to the political questions that surround health care, which makes me increasingly passionate about research in public health initiatives and challenges. I especially look forward to exploring these areas on a comparative level, comparing the primary challenges and accomplishments of one country with another. MPH Personal Purpose Statement Examples

Through middle school and high school, I was frequently prodded by peers, family members, and teachers to pursue a career as an M.D. Hearing this helped me to believe that one day I would attend a prestigious medical school. As I have matured, however, and continued to learn about medical issues on my own and through my formal studies, I have become increasingly attracted to public health issues, health education, and preventive medicine. I have developed an especially ardent passion for the struggle against obesity, which I see as the central dragon that we must slay in order to triumph in our field. I am applying to your program because I have set my heart on the idea of a career as a public health professional. It was not until the winter of my sophomore year in college that my plans finally changed, when I I had the great opportunity to intern at Clarian North Hospital, now IU North, in the operating room. It has been here in OR that I have made my decision, after much careful reflection, to pursue a career as a public health professional. I considered it an honor to follow and learn anesthesiology as an undergraduate that had not yet applied to medical school, yet alone passed the MCAT. I quickly learned some of the ins and outs of the meticulous trade. To say the surgeries were not interesting would be a fabrication, but I constantly found myself only going through the motions. I was engaged in the science of the profession, but not the profession as a whole. With this realization, I began second guessing what I had planned for my entire life. On the last day of my internship, I met a doctor by the name of Thomas Mote. I was immediately intrigued by Dr. Mote after learning that we both attended DePauw University. After our long conversation, I strongly reflected on a personal confession that Dr. Mote had told me. Simply put, he explained that anesthesia was his occupation, but public health was his passion. It had taken him many years to grasp this truth. I was so moved by our personal conversation that I went home and immediately began researching everything I could find on public health. My new interest continued at DePauw the next semester through my health psychology and medical sociology classes. I finally began connecting the dots of my true passions by incorporating my major in kinesiology to the social and behavioral wellness issues that are essentially plaguing our nation. More specifically, I became fixated with the dangerously increasing obesity epidemic. The classes changed my perspective from focusing on short term fixes to focusing on long term lifestyle changes. This thought process led to my new life goal: dedicating my time to a disease that is completely preventable. Acquiring my Master’s Degree in public health is a major step in accomplishing my fight against obesity in the United States. There is so much that can be taught. I have learned that a person’s health and wellness is affected by more than just lack of exercise and unhealthy food choices. While I understand that these are major factors, I also know that the environment and behavior patterns often inhibit a healthy lifestyle. I understand that tackling an issue as crucial as obesity is going to take a lot of patience and perseverance, but it is something that I want to dedicate the rest of my life to one person at a time. Dedication and perseverance draws from a deeply rooted passion. My four years of collegiate softball especially helped me understand this phenomenon. The strong connection to a common goal is so rewarding when all of the hard work is reflected in the outcome. I believe that this expands further than the softball field and especially applies to my future occupation in the public health field, not to mention the graduate program. This passion and drive make me a great candidate for your public health certificate program. Public Health Certificate Personal Purpose Statement

I am a woman of African heritage, born and raised in Nigeria and now living in the UK. I hold the degree of DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) awarded by the University of Ibadan in 2005. I also hold a Diploma in IT Project Management awarded by Greenwich School of Management in 2009. I was raised in poor circumstances in Nigeria but, through a highly disciplined and determined approach, I took advantage of all the opportunities available to me, which culminated in the award of a degree from Nigeria’s most prestigious seat of learning. I am extremely proud to be the first graduate in my family, indeed in my neighborhood. I excelled within my veterinary studies and am confident that I will do so again on the MPH course. I have been exposed to the unfortunate results arising from a loose and poorly enforced legislative regime in the matter of public health regulation in Africa. It has become my fervent ambition to make a difference in the world in this area of Endeavor. I hope to be involved in the framing and the enforcement of effective public health legislation on a worldwide basis but especially in the less economically developed countries of the world. I also seek to assist in the development and implementation of new methods to promote and maintain public health that are economically grounded, culturally feasible and realistic. These are my main goals and reasons for applying for this specific MPH course. There also still exists a need for women, especially of African and Asian origin, to be seen to hold senior positions in an international setting and especially in areas concerning health and welfare. I also hope to be seen as an example to those, like me, from an underprivileged background to demonstrate what achievements are possible to those who work hard and take advantage of all the opportunities available to them. Ultimately, I hope to be employed in a public health capacity by the World Health Organization to help humanity on a worldwide basis with a particular interest in dealing with pandemic threats and assisting in programs to increase food production. I have been inspired to enter this field by the example of Martin Kaplan, an American veterinarian, who became first director in Public Health at the WHO. My degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree enables me to practice as a veterinarian in Nigeria and several other African countries but not in the UK. I am aware that veterinary courses in the UK are extremely competitive and had decided anyway not to seek to undertake additional veterinarian studies here to enable me to practice. It was also the case that my interest in animal medicine had waned somewhat following some training and experience in human nursing and social work in the UK. I decided that my life should be devoted to human health and welfare, following these experiences. It is now my hope to transfer the significant and relevant knowledge gained in my veterinarian studies to date to a discipline involving human health and welfare. I studied Veterinary Public Health as a sub-course in my degree programmed, these courses also included studies and research in the areas of disease control, epidemiology, environmental health, behavioral health and biostatistics, all this knowledge is immediately transferable to the MPH course. I have carefully considered the content of relevant courses and conclude that the master's degree in public health at XXU is an ideal ‘fit’ for my purposes and goals. The program holds special attraction for me because of its strong emphasis on the prevention of disease, which is my main area of interest. It is also my preference to study in the heart of London and thus be enabled to socialize and interact with students, of many disciplines, from as wide a variety of backgrounds and interests as possible. I am also drawn by the fact that visiting lecturers, from a variety of public health roles, provide current and real-life information in their respective specialties. It would be my hope to be enabled to undertake research in the areas of animal contagion, nutrition and epidemiology during the course. I already have significant knowledge in these areas, gained in my earlier degree studies and research. I am happy to work and study with people of all ethnic backgrounds and nationalities. I have, to date, worked and socialized with people from a variety of ethnicities, nationalities and social backgrounds. It would be my intention to share my own interesting and relevant academic and life experiences with class members and demonstrate my own interest in their own. This will provide excellent preparation for a future position with the WHO. In addition to my professional experience, I have undertaken several different volunteer activities including taking care of the elderly and mentoring young people in matters of career choice and their general welfare. These have been extremely rewarding experiences and have strengthened my determination to be involved in the welfare of humanity as a lifetime career choice. It would be my hope to involve myself in volunteer activities within college societies as far as the demands of my studies will permit especially activities involved in helping young people. I am aware that the program will attract many well-qualified applicants. However, I feel sure that my relevant background in veterinary science and my personal qualities of diligence, commitment and determination, demonstrated fully in my academic successes to date, will enable me to make a significant contribution to the academic community at your prestigious university and ultimately to be of service to humanity. Master’s in Public Health Personal Purpose Statement

Even though my mother is an American, she taught me little English since she raised me in Brazil, and she was very fluent in Portuguese. When I first moved to the USA at 17, I was unable to even differentiate between the sounds of "t" and "d" and was picked on in High School because of the way that I struggled to speak correctly. The other students even mimicked me. This was a most delicate and traumatic experience that has motivated me to a lifetime of service helping young people learn to communicate. What I love most in life is my university; the University of XXXX where I will be earning my undergraduate degree in our field this coming May of 2015. I have also been working in our neurolinguistics lab for a full year now. My life in the USA got off to a difficult start and I feel strongly that I would excel in graduate school in Speech Language Therapy here at the UXX, which I call home and I love it so. A sentence that I read on the XXXX website sums up my philosophy of life: “Our Goal is to improve lives, one story at a time.” Throughout my undergraduate studies, especially at UXX, I have refined my scientific and clinical skills, most of all as a student but also through my work in the neurolinguistics lab. This is why I feel that I will be able to excel in your program and integrate my research experience into creative avenues of further exploration as a graduate student in SLP. I came to the USA from my native Brazil just in time to learn English and finish High School on time. My father is Brazilian and is a horse trainer. When my father got a job in the USA and we moved here permanently, English became most immediately relevant. Reading was easy to pick up, but writing was much more difficult. This is one of the reasons why my first attempts at a college education were fraught with problems and setbacks. My mother was diagnosed with cancer, my father struggling with extremely limited success to start his own business, and me working as a server at night instead of studying and sleeping were also major contributing factors. Most of all, however, it was athletics, my membership on the equestrian team. I had to choose between being an equestrian and being a student and I chose the latter. I will soon be graduating with my bachelor's degree in communication disorders from UXX and I am most pleased to have redeemed myself academically, since I have earned only one ‘A- ‘: the rest are A’s. At some point in my career, I will again incorporate horses into my professional goals. I had a wonderful experience with my mother volunteering with an Equi Therapy Program that helped Kids with Down syndrome, Cerebral palsy etc.—this experience stays with me. To see the joy in those children’s eyes when they were around horses was priceless. Most of those children had some sort of communication impairment/disorder. During this time, I also had the privilege of speaking with a speech therapist who was also a volunteer. She told me that I should check out the SLP field. I am pleased to have done so. Thank you for considering my application. SLP Personal Purpose Statement Neurolinguistics

I come from a family of health care workers in a small city in India, the youngest of several siblings who are all doctors. As my studies progressed, I became increasingly aware of the grave interconnections between poverty, on the one hand, and morbidity on the other. Especially tragic are the deaths that occur because of the lack of something as simple as potable water. The desperate state of public health infrastructure in India has fortified my resolve and helped me to become a highly disciplined physician. My intense intellectual and academic curiosity compelled me to come to the US. Now, I am especially thankful for having the opportunity to continue to prepare myself for a career in medicine in a country with state-of-the-art medical and academic facilities. I hope to earn the MPH at XXXU because I am convinced that I will have the most creative ideas in your state-of-the-art program. I want to wrestle with public health challenges across the board, every facet of patients from prenatal through geriatric stages. I am most excited by the process of unlocking the mysteries of illnesses, which is why I want to develop my central professional focus on epidemiology. I am especially fascinated by the study of epidemiology through the prism of life stages. The diversity of illnesses attracts me, and this has helped me to become a driven student and doctor. My training at Guntur Medical College prepared me with a solid foundation for addressing the challenges of public health systems in the Developing World, which will help me to distinguish myself in your program. Social and preventive medicine is what I hold most dearly to my heart: compassionate care, social advocacy, and creative ideas for enhancements of systems of community health promotion. I have supplemented my medical school education by working with the community as part of both academic and national health programs, helping me to appreciate the immense potential that preventive medicine has for society and the importance of leadership and management at making it a success. Working here in New Jersey as a Clinical Observer has convinced me that I have the same gift for winning the confidence of patients here in America as I did back home, and I am most conscious of the responsibility that accompanies this trust. In addition to direct patient contact, what I most enjoy is working as part of a team and the group satisfaction that results from the achievement of common goals. I find epidemiology to be an especially exciting field with enormous potential for creating positive change. In my case, your program will prepare me to work as an administrator and educator for a nonprofit medical organization. Your program is my first choice because of its excellence, and the fact that I live with my family in Camden, and it will be convenient for me to attend courses at the Camden Campus. In this way I will have the full support of my family and I will be able to give my all to my studies. MPH Public Health Personal Purpose Statement Indian