-: So yeah, I was involved in a student organization.
It was the student chapter here at Ball State
of an organization called Timmy Global Health.
And they support other countries by sending
medical professionals and students on medical brigades.
And they support the partner organizations
in other countries.
So, I participated in two of those medical brigades
and that was kind of what opened my eyes
to the fact that I wanted to work upstream
from clinical medicine and do more preventative medicine.
So it was a really great experience,
and the faculty advisor for Timmy,
who was also the faculty advisor
for the pre-professional health students,
she's actually the person who helped me find
the epidemiology masters program
that I eventually went to and she...
I remember sitting in her office and saying, you know
medicine doesn't feel quite right
and laboratory doesn't feel quite right,
but I'm not sure what I wanna do.
And she actually helped me find this path.
So I'm really thankful to her for helping
guide me this direction.