Hello All

This is Kristin Brown, a "newbie" next fall. I am really excited to get to know you all and learn from you all the tricks of the trade. I hope you will pass on your nuggets of wisdom to us so our path might be a bit smoother. I am also excited about this blog! Thanks, Grant, for setting it up! I have little to offer at this time, but have and will continue to enjoy reading what you all post. Have a great summer.

Kristin Brown

Lesson learned: Stay on your toes!

Hello fellow MPHers,

Amanda and I are pleased to report happy news -- we are back on track to Cambodia! The key phrase that seemed to keep rising to the surface is "Know your stakeholders!" After becoming more familiar with the policies of the Fultons and our college, department, and program, we teamed up with Prof. Don Holsinger and a group of BYU-Hawaii students for our trip to Cambodia! We will be sharing housing while we are there, which sounds like a wonderful situation and should greatly enrich our experience. We even have our plane tickets now! Our date of departure is the 24th of June.

In the meantime, we are finishing the preliminary paperwork, I am wrapping up my internship with the Center for Multicultural Health and the Utah County Health Department, and I get to take a break by doing a little bit of sprinkler system work on the side!

Thanks everyone for keeping me up-to-date on the blog! Thanks for all your support!