Tell us about yourself.
I am a DrPH and an operations manager with health and safety training to handle HAZMAT shipments for healthcare and non-healthcare clients in the USA.
Why did you pursue a DrPH?
I pursued DrPH to gain extra skills to start public health practice in addition to my operations management experience with HAZMAT handling capability (Occupational Health and Safety).
What are you currently excited about in your job?
Currently, I try to be a multi-faceted operations management person with HAZMAT handling responsibility. I also perform health and safety audits on my employees. My duties also encompass health and safety daily observations on employees, filling out and train employees on safe work methods (SWMs), and so forth.
If you could write a book about your life, what would the title be and why?
A title would be "A DrPH doctor's nuances to balance work, practice, and family life".
What is something interesting about you that we should know?
I didn't give up despite high level challenges in my past years during the course of my DrPH degree. My mother was chronically sick for months in 2022, I switched jobs 4 years ago, my wife was chronically ill last year. I was diagnosed with two moderately bothering conditions of the GI that were connected to an injury during my brief stay in the US Navy years ago. My bank accounts were compromised by ID thieves last year. Despite all these challenges, I persisted and graduated with DrPH this June.
