Atlantic
International University (AIU)
School:
Social and Human Studies
Degree: Doctor of Public Health
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
I
am writing to express my heartfelt thank for the AIU’s excellent education service, enabling
me to reach my academic goal as a Doctor of
Public Health. Inspired to gain this degree,
I highly appreciate the school
support service and the quality of education system.
As the director of the National Center for Parasitology,
Entomology, and Malaria Control of the Ministry of Health of Cambodia, my role
is like a commander in chief for assuring the achievement of all program goals.
Malaria, for instance, is to be eliminated by 2025; therefore, I have worked hard in
many main areas: health policy development and implementation, health strategic
plans and framework, risk assessment, and
monitoring and evaluation. Given that I am in charge of three national health
programs: malaria, dengue, and helminthiasis, I usual have a tight schedule
filled with a full year round activities such as appointments with stakeholders,
and meetings and conferences. Thus, all these are seriously challenging my
opportunity and my time availability of improving my knowledge and my
professional career.
Previously, I thought I was too old to reach my learning
goal, a Ph.D. degree; however, I made it now due to the modern globalization
and the high technology-based education system; it made the world smaller. Surfing
the AIU’ web page, I was impressed by the simplicity and the enormous amount of
learning resources, 10 million full texts and about 47 million bibliographic
references in more than 400 languages. Moreover, having learned at AIU, I have
trusted in the education services, and other communication technologies, so this would allow all students to be
connected with the great satisfaction, enriching the human civilization with
the miracle of the modern communication technology.
Therefore, I decided to pursue my academic degree in public
health at AIU; with my aspiration for a better professionalism, I have been
strongly motivated from the beginning while consulting with the admission
counselor, Liliana Penaranda. She explained me about the distance learning,
keeping up my spirit of learning as if I was a young student. Throughout my study period, I have
been satisfied with the AIU’s services: tuition, payment, resources,
communication, and the student section within a variety of professional fields, and excellent support and guidance from my
tutor, Kinmberly Diaz, and advisor. My knowledge improvement included communication
skills, disease investigation, and organization theory. Other areas included self-evaluation
matrix, the integration chart of the guarantee of an academic degree,
philosophy of education, the applied health diagnosis, an organization of
health services, epidemiology, planning health care, health service
administration, health legislation, directorate of health institutions and
economy in public health. Once, recalling
all experiences and achievements I have made at the University—these shaped
me to adapt my current and prospective curriculum and matrix designation
linking with actual work performances and responsibilities. Moreover, other
professional fields were also well brought me up to achieve my academic goal,
empowering me to strengthen all the
national programs at my center, achieving the program goals.
Following
my graduation as a Doctor of Public
Health, I have two ultimate goals including knowledge sharing and effective program management: malaria, dengue, and helminths.
I, for the former, have used a variety of communication channels; for instance,
meetings, workshops, conferences, academic programs at a university, and the
partnership with other schools with long
distance learning such as AIU in particular. Regarding the later, I have
applied all my knowledge and expertise with respect to program policies,
implementation, environmental health assessment, and technology-based disease surveillance system. Additionally, I will
improve and strengthen the health service administration, health
institutions, and economy in public health, exercising
the best integration approaches for a better
understanding of real community status
and norm; as a result, this will engage the community participation. In fact,
all academic knowledge is extremely useful to prevent, control, and eliminate
the diseases within the timeframe of program goal.
Last
but not least, I would like to thank AIU again for the world-class quality in
almost everything: curriculum, services,
communication system, payment flexibility, supports, guidance, and all advice from the admission counselor, tutor, and
advisors. Being both as an academic lecturer,
and a program leader, I firmly promise that I will work hard, and share my
inputs with the communities and other fellow public health professionals. Holding
a degree of doctorate in public health, I will have to make a difference int terms
of reducing the disease burden, a public health problem, through the
effectiveness of program implementation at my center, and beyond—a potential
country and global.
Sincerely
Yours,
Huy Rekol
