{"id":5562,"date":"2022-12-08T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5562"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:48:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:48:53","slug":"ellie-rose-matoon","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/profiles\/ellie-rose-matoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellie Rose Mattoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Briefly describe what you did for your Applied Experience and any highlights.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent my applied experience as a Summer Fellow at Hopkins Community Connection at the East Baltimore Medical Center.  Essentially, I got the opportunity to work with patients on goals a physician might not be able to follow up on, such as food stamps, shutoff protection, or medical transportation. I also worked with a team piloting the impact of produce delivery on food security in East Baltimore! Overall, the experience was a great opportunity to witness the day-to-day flow of a clinic, and I got to know a lot of the staff and residents well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How has your experience informed your understanding of public health?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this experience really helped me understand the delicate balance between personal and collective health. While I worked with individual patients, I also got an opportunity to see what my supervisors were doing to make policies better for everyone at the state level. While I used to be a bit cynical about the effectiveness of advocacy, this experience helped me see how sometimes it feels necessary in the face of unfair policies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How does this experience align with your future goals?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;m planning on both writing about health topics and going to medical school. Witnessing the day-to-day of a clinic and shadowing residents was a great way to solidify my interest in medicine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How do you think your time at JHU prepared you for this work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the Public Health coursework sets a really good foundation for student understanding of the social determinants of health, and I had to use that knowledge every day in the clinic. We public health students hear about social determinants of health so often it feels like common knowledge, but whenever I talk to non-majors or people outside of Hopkins I&#8217;m reminded that more needs to be done to raise awareness of these concepts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the opportunity to work with patients on goals a physician might not be able to follow up on, such as food stamps, shutoff protection, or medical transportation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6640,"template":"","profiletype":[270],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6090,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5562\/revisions\/6090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profiletype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiletype?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}