What Is Dr. Levett's Passion For Public Health?

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The second ECPD session was a presentation with Dr. Levett giving a background about his experience and how he came into the public health field. Dr. Levett has a wonderful passion in him for the public health. A statement he mentions that stayed with me was if you do not have the passion for public health it would not make you happy (this is not the exact statement). I believe Dr. Levett was stating, public health is not an easy career where one gets a job with a high salary, but it is a career where you learn to love what you do. One thing that was very memorable when Dr. Levett spoke was the origin of several public health and scientific terms originated from Greek terminology. For example the word epidemiology, the Greek works epi- means