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Herzer & Mediratta win Marshall Scholarships
Issue date: 12/4/08
Within the social policy department he will focus on either social epidemiology or evidence-based intervention. Herzer has already spent time in England studying patient safety with a World Health Organization (WHO) program.
Mediratta, the 2008 Hopkins Second Decade Society Walsh Award winner and a Huntington Grant winner, is currently in Gondar, Ethiopia.
He has spent much of his free time during his undergraduate years at Hopkins. He is working with the WHO, UNICEF and Ethiopian officials to decrease child mortality in Ethiopia.
At SOAS, Mediratta will complement his firsthand experience in Africa and studies of public health with more formal studies on Africa, according to Bader.
"He's extremely well-connected there. He knows many officials, academics and civic leaders. But his understanding of the continent is personal and anecdotal. He'll be using the Marshall to complement that with social science study," Bader said.
Both Herzer and Bader agree that Hopkins students are a particularly good fit with the Marshall Scholarship.
"When I first came here eight years ago, I though that Hopkins and Marshall were a very good fit. Marshall puts a very high premium on academic excellence and focus of mission and the kind of personalities that win a Marshall are a little more diverse. Whereas the Rhodes [Scholarship] has a very singular culture that's very aggressive, almost arrogant," Bader said.
Herzer attributed Hopkins success with the Marshall Scholarship to the training students go through to develop an expertise in a certain area.
He believes the Marshall committee seeks students who are pushing forward in a specific field.
"The Marshall and Rhodes are cut from the same cloth in that they're looking for students of extraordinary reach," Bader said.
Including Herzer and Mediratta, Hopkins has won six Marshall Scholarship during Bader's time at Hopkins.
"It was my instinct that the Marshall was something we should be pushing more aggressively and that's worked out. It's really great to see six Marshalls," Bader said.
Mediratta, the 2008 Hopkins Second Decade Society Walsh Award winner and a Huntington Grant winner, is currently in Gondar, Ethiopia.
He has spent much of his free time during his undergraduate years at Hopkins. He is working with the WHO, UNICEF and Ethiopian officials to decrease child mortality in Ethiopia.
At SOAS, Mediratta will complement his firsthand experience in Africa and studies of public health with more formal studies on Africa, according to Bader.
"He's extremely well-connected there. He knows many officials, academics and civic leaders. But his understanding of the continent is personal and anecdotal. He'll be using the Marshall to complement that with social science study," Bader said.
Both Herzer and Bader agree that Hopkins students are a particularly good fit with the Marshall Scholarship.
"When I first came here eight years ago, I though that Hopkins and Marshall were a very good fit. Marshall puts a very high premium on academic excellence and focus of mission and the kind of personalities that win a Marshall are a little more diverse. Whereas the Rhodes [Scholarship] has a very singular culture that's very aggressive, almost arrogant," Bader said.
Herzer attributed Hopkins success with the Marshall Scholarship to the training students go through to develop an expertise in a certain area.
He believes the Marshall committee seeks students who are pushing forward in a specific field.
"The Marshall and Rhodes are cut from the same cloth in that they're looking for students of extraordinary reach," Bader said.
Including Herzer and Mediratta, Hopkins has won six Marshall Scholarship during Bader's time at Hopkins.
"It was my instinct that the Marshall was something we should be pushing more aggressively and that's worked out. It's really great to see six Marshalls," Bader said.
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