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Buife Moria Onuselogu took up the MPH at JCSPHPC for several reasons, but the defining factor was her experience with the pandemic. While working as a Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) peer consultant at the time, she found a passion for removing health inequalities and addressing healthcare issues – she had seen how COVID-19 affected people’s physical and mental health, and that current public policies failed to address the latter. This led her to pursue an advanced degree at JCSPHPC.
“I was fortunate to live in a city with strong public health policies that allowed people to continue their daily lives and pursue their educational goals, but not everyone around the globe was as lucky,” she says. “This experience not only deepened my gratitude but also ignited my passion for public health, ultimately inspiring me to pursue an MPH.”
Onuselogu had sought a programme that covers global health policies. To her, it was important to not just look at what developed countries were doing but also what’s happening in third world countries too.
The MPH at JCSPHPC ticked many of those boxes. Onuselogu then spent two years pursuing the programme with a concentration in population and global health. Some highlights of her time here included meetings with alumni, an intensive, week-long disaster crisis course, creating her own public health initiative focused on children, and a capstone project in the form of a systematic review.
“My supervisor for the capstone project was very helpful, and I’m appreciative of her because she helped me grow and improve my work,” says Onuselogu. “I’m glad that I could see what it was like to produce work that was good quality – something that could actually be published.”
“I'm really excited for the future; I’m not nervous or anything because I feel I have a really good foundation, and I'm excited to see what the future holds. CUHK has provided me with so much and the opportunities I have are pretty endless.”