Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
My name is Samantha Kurtz (Sam), and I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) from Peace Corps Uganda. From July 2023 to July 2025, I served as a Community Health Educator in Kamuli District, located in Central East Uganda. I primarily aided individuals living with HIV, as well as young mothers and their children. …
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The second year at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University is both an exciting and stressful one. For this blog post, I sat down with a couple of second year friends to discuss their two years at Rollins. Read my informal sit-down interviews with them to learn more about how diverse second year …
To be honest, the first year at Rollins isn’t easy. Regardless of how long you’ve been out of school, where you’re from, or what program you’re in, there’s a lot to learn and only two years to learn it. Adjusting to this new environment was tough, but one thing kept me excited to come to …
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