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>>Joni: I'm Joni and I have just finished my Masters of Health Communication. I have
a very strong interest in Mental Health but also the role that nutrition plays on Mental
Health. I have worked previously in broadcast journalism. The combination of communications,
which is something I've already been trained in, with health, which is something I love,
ah, made this program really really interesting to me. It is incredibly international; particularly
this degree and the people that were in my classes, as I said before, are very talented.
They each had such a different kind of experience. And so even people that were perhaps from
the same country but from different regions within that country would talk about the same
topic with really different experiences. Ah, but then again, coming from the US, I suppose,
ah; and I had a couple of other people from the US in my classes, we brought also something
different. So there were sometimes some some heated conversations. But nothing, nothing
uncomfortable unpleasant but just yeah, controversy came up; but I think that's also what made
it so real. And so um, so valuable because you've got to really hear what other people
thought. And nobody, you know, kept quiet; so that was nice. I really love my Public
Health classes because they were outside of anything I knew. Each time you come in, it
was like you could sit down for two hours - and sometimes they'd get us to stand because
you're not supposed to sit that long - but, um, you just you you had access to these people
who were on fire about what they were doing. And that that's really invigorating and exciting
because you know that's what you're going to be getting into, and all I could think
about the whole time was, 'how do I work with them?', you know? How do I get in with that;
because that was just inspiring.