![]() ![]() “I was applying the things that I learned in the classroom, not only outside, but also in another country. “When I was in Madrid, I wrote a really big research paper on health care in Spain,” she said. She combined her health knowledge with her coursework in Spanish during a semester abroad in Madrid. She also worked at Keck Medicine of USC as a clinical marketing intern, working to increase patient volume and physician hires, and as a project specialist in the Office of Integrated Risk Management. She delved even deeper into the field during a health communications internship with the Wendy Walk, a nonprofit that raises funds for Liposarcoma research. I felt I could really make a difference in the community by addressing community health.” “And so I started taking health policy classes and health management classes. “I started to become more interested in health care,” Roth said. Kolnick presented their findings at an April 2015 conference. She participated in research with Kathy Kolnick, a Price adjunct professor, focused on the health effects of anti-immigrant public nuisance laws in Southern California. ![]() Department of Transportation, Volpe focused Roth’s attention on how transportation access profoundly affects community health.Īround the same time, she also found herself examining public health as the recipient of a Student Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) grant at the Price School. This led to an internship at Volpe, the National Transportation Systems Center. Everybody of every socioeconomic status needs public transportation in a city for the most part, so I really loved that aspect.” And I really love transportation, because it connects all walks of life. “They’re almost like microcosms of the entire nation just in that one area. “When I first came into Price, I started as an urban planning major, because I always loved cities as just these vibrant areas,” she said. Tying urban planning to community healthĪt USC Price, she was able to explore several different fields of interest. I felt like you could do public service, but you could also see more tangible results when you’re working through different real-life scenarios in Price.”īorn and raised in Monmouth County, N.J., Roth chose USC because it combined the strong academics of a research university with the vibrant student life and network of the Trojan Family. “But when I came to USC, I found Price more so as a practical outlet. “I was in a law and public service high school program, and it was pretty rigorous for law and helping the community through law,” she said. This May, she’s graduating as its valedictorian. Undergraduate student Hallie Roth was initially drawn to the USC Price School of Public Policy by the opportunity to put theory into practice. ![]()
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