Reflection

Reflect on your experience with the practice labs. List a minimum of two competencies achieved through the practice lab projects and how you achieved them. Describe their cumulative impact on your learning. 

Identifying lead exposure risks in a hypothetical community shows how insidious global environmental health risks can be. This helped me become sufficiently able to analyze environmental health problems from a global health perspective. Assessing the cultural traditions, albeit hypothetically, was informative from a public health lens. Identifying risk factors for the hypothetical community was challenging. However, I was excited to develop ways to mitigate these risk factors. This required me to look at the scenario from a risk manager and directed me to evaluate environmental hazards by assessing the potential risks.
Mitigating the risk of methyl isocyanate leaking from railway storage tanks was challenging and required me to look at all avenues of risk management. The expenditures to create a risk management response plan and potentially reroute a railway around residential centers would be enormous. However, public health professionals must provide all possible strategies to reduce risk. We must attempt to mitigate efficiently and be fiscally responsible in the process.