Eight University of Pittsburgh students and one 2013 Pitt graduate will study abroad as award recipients in two prestigious national scholarship programs designed to build a broader and more qualified pool of U.S. citizens with foreign language skills. Between them, they will learn Hindi, Mandarin, Persian, Turkish, and Swahili.
Laura Wilson, who graduated April 28 with a Master of Public Health degree in health policy and management and a certificate in global health from Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health, will learn Turkish in Turkey. She is pursuing a career in international health policy. “One of my big interests is in health diplomacy,” she says. “It’s a field that looks at the mediating role health and health policy can play in international affairs. I’m interested in Turkey because of its geopolitical position between Western and Eastern worlds.” Wilson is from Bridgeport, W.Va.
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5/16/2013