Kofi Cash (MS 2001) almost became a doctor. At the start of his last semester at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Kofi had a number of important decisions to make. "My college advisor encouraged me to consider TDI (then CECS) as the first stepping stone in my post-graduate path." For someone like Kofi with a range of academic options, one of the major benefits to the Masters of Science program was that this one year program wouldn't derail his other academic options.

Kathmandu, Nepal is half a world away from Emily Newick's home office in Vermont, but it is the center of her professional life and a major focus of her considerable energies with regard to international health care issues. Newick (MPH 2003) is the Executive Director of the Himalayan Cataract Project - a non-profit agency established in 1994 to support a network of eye care clinics in Nepal, Tibet, China, Bhutan, and India, and to educate local medical providers from throughout the Himalayan region.

Victoria Flanagan is not afraid of the road less traveled. For 23 years she has worked as a perinatal nurse, tending to the needs of the sickest babies and their terrified parents. "When I started do this work, it was like a laboratory, - so much of the work we were doing with these babies was purely an investigation." As the questions about her daily practice increased, Vicki embarked upon another path that brought her to the Master of Science Program at TDI (then CECS).