If you would have told me a year ago that I would be deeply involved in a in-depth look at healthcare I would have laughed at you.
A year later and I am getting ready to embark on my second semester with the O'Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism. This semester already looks very different. Lillian Thomas of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette has undertaken a large overarching project on the American healthcare system. She has me, Sarah Hauer and Eva Sotomayer this semester to accompany her.
We are going to be taking a long hard look at diabetes in America and Milwaukee in a partnership with Andrea Waxman and the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, a independent news organization focusing on central Milwaukee social issues. We all have different roles to play. My role, this semester, is going to be focusing on a comprehensive info graphic that is overloaded with stats about type 2 diabetes and its prevalence in our society.
It will lay out the basics of the disease and then track its expansion nationally and locally.
I do not have much experience with the disease and I just started researching it. I know it is caused through a variety of problems and that the exploding obesity problem that plagues society is a large contributor to it. Because of the increasing obesity problem coupled with a lack of physical activity American's are developing type 2 diabetes at an alarming rate.
I am looking forward to this semester working with NNS and Lillian to follow a patient as he takes on the healthcare system head on and learning more about this disease that is too commonplace in our society.
As the fellowship comes close so does my career at Marquette. I left my mark on this University and I am hoping this fellowship will leave a mark on me.
A year later and I am getting ready to embark on my second semester with the O'Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism. This semester already looks very different. Lillian Thomas of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette has undertaken a large overarching project on the American healthcare system. She has me, Sarah Hauer and Eva Sotomayer this semester to accompany her.
We are going to be taking a long hard look at diabetes in America and Milwaukee in a partnership with Andrea Waxman and the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, a independent news organization focusing on central Milwaukee social issues. We all have different roles to play. My role, this semester, is going to be focusing on a comprehensive info graphic that is overloaded with stats about type 2 diabetes and its prevalence in our society.
It will lay out the basics of the disease and then track its expansion nationally and locally.
I do not have much experience with the disease and I just started researching it. I know it is caused through a variety of problems and that the exploding obesity problem that plagues society is a large contributor to it. Because of the increasing obesity problem coupled with a lack of physical activity American's are developing type 2 diabetes at an alarming rate.
I am looking forward to this semester working with NNS and Lillian to follow a patient as he takes on the healthcare system head on and learning more about this disease that is too commonplace in our society.
As the fellowship comes close so does my career at Marquette. I left my mark on this University and I am hoping this fellowship will leave a mark on me.
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