I think the most important things I can do as a future health care professional is to 1. Stay educated and 2. Help others be educated.

One of the main reasons I wanted to get my MPH was so that I could have a better idea of what the health care system is like in this country - what it's really like, not what the insurance companies and other powers that be tell you it is like. I think classes like this one have opened up my eyes to just how badly reform does need to happen, and also to the mindset shifts that need to occur.

Raising awareness is one of the biggest difference makers, no matter the issue, and if I have any hope of being able to eloquently do that, I need to stay educated and up on the issues myself. Change can't happen if no one knows what they are talking about. As a (hopeful) future physician, there is a need for reform in that field as well as everywhere else on the spectrum. Hopefully a new generation of informed citizens and health care professionals like those of us in this class can affect change.