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Although Hopkins had Rhodes finalists at Hopkins this year, neither were awarded the Scholarship.

Hari Prabhakar '07, is the last Hopkins student to win a Marshall Scholarship. He is currently studying at the London School of Hygiene. Prabhakar was also a public health major.

Bader emphasized that Marshall Scholars are world citizens and future leaders.

The committee looks for well-rounded students who have pushed themselves in different ways.

Herzer has worked with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the WHO. He is an avid cyclist, a Truman Scholar and was the sole undergraduate on the presidential search committee.

Herzer plans on using that scholarship to pay for medical school, which he has already applied to, but will not enroll in until after he completes his post-graduate studies at Oxford.

Mediratta was editor-in-chief of a journal, Epidemic Proportions at Hopkins, a member of a Hindi a cappella group, a volunteer for HERO and has worked tirelessly on health issues in Ethiopia.

Although both Herzer and Mediratta have a passion for public health, what is less obvious from their resumes is the quality of their personal character.

"One of the best parts about both of them is that they are very nice men," Director of undergraduate Public Health Studies Kelly Gebo said.

This year, Harvard, MIT and the U.S. Naval Academy each had four students awarded Marshall Scholarships.

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