Key Insight Application

My experience in the global learning pathway The intervention plan involves a target
helped me understand how discrimination population that has been heavily
negatively impacts public health in different discriminated against in society and
cultures. As a future public health healthcare. African Americans have a higher
professional, it is impactful that I maintain anrate of HIV/AIDS in part due to this
unbiased view so that I can have a greater discrimination, which is why this intervention
impact in helping more people. involves targeting this population that would
normally not receive access to testing or
health education as easily.
My global learning experiences taught me The intervention plan involves not only
that in order to solve problems, you have to testing the target population for HIV/AIDS,
look below the surface and think outside the but also setting up community meetings with
box. As a future public health professional, it health educators that provide education that
will be important for me to not just put band- target prevention and treatment for those
aids on healthcare problems, but to think of with the diagnosis. This alternative solution
alternative solutions for long-term care. allows those diagnosed to have resources to
help them remain healthy with HIV, prevent
it from becoming AIDS, and help prevent
them from transmitting it to others in
Richland County.
My global learning experience has taught me For the intervention plan, it would be
that it just takes one individual to start the impossible for me to complete it all myself. I
fire, but it takes a village to impact positive will need a huge team of health educators,
change. In public health, things are stakeholders, health specialists, target
accomplished best in teams, rather than population representatives, donors,
individually. In my future career, I will be phlebotomists, and committee members to
thoughtful in rallying others behind my cause implement this intervention and ensure its
to make change. success. In public health, these interventions
can’t be done alone. The “we” in my
intervention plan refers to me and my team.