Admission Essay for Master of Public Health Bloomberg School John Hobkins
Growing up in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, where 4-5 million people came at once from different corners of the world was often challenging, because the city lack a proper health system, although it benefited of good financial opportunities. I come from a good, low-income family, and while I was growing up, I was travelling with my father, who was a truck driver, to small villages. This is how I got to know the socioeconomic status of Saudi Arabia and I understood that people suffer and often died of preventable diseases. The lack of proper medical education brought me repeatedly in the emergency rooms ...