Faculty: Medicine
Program: Master of Public Health
Year: 2021
Country: Rwanda
Phoebe is praised for being a hardworking, compassionate, and passionate family-oriented person. She was born and raised in Kigali, Rwanda. When she was a toddler, she almost lost her life to anemia. As she grew up, she was determined to become a pediatrician. She was awarded a MasterCard Foundation scholarship and graduated from Michigan State University with Bachelor’s degree in Public Health Nutrition with a minor in Global Public Health and Epidemiology.
During her undergraduate study, she learned that most of the health challenges of poor communities can be easily solved through effective public health efforts. She was involved in projects about leadership, education, nutrition, public health, and infectious diseases. One of her proudest projects is to reduce malnutrition and stunting in children and women using fortified foods conducted with the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Rwanda.
Phoebe is highly passionate about public health education and the effective dissemination of evidence-based health information. Her career goal is to become a public health professor and to start a Nutrition and Public Health Research Institute. She believes UBC’s MPH program will help her to gain skills to advance public health knowledge in her home country Rwanda. She is looking forward to her studies at UBC and is excited to take a part in related projects.