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Wow. I cannot believe I’m sitting here, writing my final blog post. As I reflect on my first blog post, “A Letter to My Future Self,” I feel a great sense of accomplishment, and a little bit bittersweet. All of my expectations for what I wanted to learn and experience this summer were met, but I’m a little sad that its come to an end seemingly so quickly!<\/p>\n
I essentially knew nothing about Brazil when I started, and during these past 10 weeks my knowledge has expanded exponentially. I wrote in my first post that I hope “that this experience will give me a better idea of how I see myself improving the world\u2019s health in the future.”\u00a0 I believe that this goal has been fulfilled. During my process of conducting literature reviews and exploring primary sources, I have learned a\u00a0lot\u00a0<\/em>about the nuances of public health policy and how influential racial and gender politics are in the process of developing health policy (for better or for worse). I feel confident that I can take the knowledge I’ve gained throughout this fellowship about public health in Brazil and use my perspective to inform my public policy studies.<\/p>\n What I\u00a0didn’t\u00a0<\/em>write about in my Letter to My Future Self was how important my fellow WAGSFP cohort fellows would be to my summer experience!! I have been SO inspired by the other fellows. You all are\u00a0amazing.\u00a0<\/em>Seriously, I mean it. I have learned so much from everyone, and it has been really refreshing to be surrounded by such dedicated, hard-working, and intellectually curious people. It has been such a pleasure getting to know you all.<\/p>\n Goodbye my friends! Have a great rest of your summer! I am excited to see what you all end up doing in the future– I’m certain it will be something great!<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Brianna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow. I cannot believe I’m sitting here, writing my final blog post. As I reflect on my first blog post, “A Letter to My Future Self,” I feel a great sense of accomplishment, and a little bit bittersweet. All of my expectations for what I wanted to learn and experience this summer were met, but… Continue reading All good things must come to an end…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-reflection","category-brianna","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Image](\"http:\/\/gifimage.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sad-goodbye-gif-1.gif\")
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