Medical students taking professional oath

MPH and Neuroscience programme

Six years now since Swe Swe left Burma for Singapore to study nursing science, in the hope that she will one day be able to benefit the village she once used to work as a teacher.

She has witnessed several fatalities of villagers by curable diseases that she thought was simply because there was no knowledge about health education in the community.

After completing her contract with a hospital in Singapore, she is now in the process of moving to the United States where she hopes to study for a Master's degree in Public Health.

Will to share

Sabai has graduated with neuroscience in 2003 from the University of California in Los Angeles.

She is currently pursuing a duel programme of MD/PhD in medical science at California University.

	A moment of celebration at Sabai's graduation

Remembering the days when she left Burma in 1998, she said she was lucky for her relatives helped her to settle in the United States.

She had to start from a two-year course at a community collage before she can transfer to the University of California.

From school admission to part time studying opportunities, Sabai shares her knowledge about studying public health in the US to Swe Swe during the discussion in Education Gateway programme.

However long away from homeland, Swe Swe says she is determined to go back and work for the village after her studies while Sabai is looking forward to help people in rural areas of Burma.