Sports, Exercise and Public Health: the perfect combination.

It is a great pleasure of mine to congratulate you for a wise decision to embark on the Exercise and Sports undergraduate degree. In the following paragraphs I will try to uncover one of the most interesting career paths; integrating exercise and sports science with public health. Drawing from my own experience, I started my career as a practitioner after completing my undergraduate degree in exercise and sports science, including physical education and dance teaching diplomas. I worked as a teacher and exercise trainer for 15 years. During this time I continued my postgraduate studies in the Master of Public Health (MPH) program. I could support myself from my work as a trainer 8 hours a week and was fortunate to get a tuition scholarship. The public health discipline fascinated me; it provided me with vast opportunities to apply my undergraduate background in sports, exercise and physical education to population health as a researcher. It was the perfect blend for me and I continued to do my PhD about the public health perspective of the most fundamental human movement, which is walking. I am therefore happy to provide you with some “food for thoughts” for your own career whether you will choose to be a researcher or a practitioner