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Tamara K. Montacute
"I will enjoy the challenge of rigorous research resulting in a safer environment."
- Program: 2006 Graduate Scholarship Recipient
- Resides: Fall City, WA
- Hometown: Tauranga, New Zealand
- Age: 29
- Four-year College or University: Barnard College
- Graduate School: Stanford University
- Academic/Career Pursuits: Agriculture, Arts / Music / Performance, Childcare, Environmental Scientist, Health Care, International NGO/Relations, Languages, Medical Practitioner, Nonprofits, Philosophy, Sciences, Sports, Writing / Journalism
- Other Interests: Environmental Science, Foreign Languages / International Study, Health Care, International Economic Development, International Relations / NGOs, Languages, Leadership Development, Model UN, Nonprofits, Outdoor / Mountaineering / Camping, Performing Arts / Theatre, Philosophy, Sciences, Sports, Tutoring / Mentoring, Visual Arts, Volunteer Work, Dance, Music
Biography
By her own account, Tamara Montacute likes "to get things done." She founded an outdoors club in high school, and in college participated in sophisticated research on the effects of manganese in well water in a Bangladeshi village. Since graduation she has worked at a Mexican orphanage clinic. Tamara is fueled by a wish to help others. Part of it, she says, is her upbringing on three continents. "My cosmopolitan background has instilled in me a great sense of the worth and diversity of each person."
Tamara is pursuing a master's in public health specializing in environmental health science. She wants to focus on Latin American environmental health concerns, such as water-borne diseases and air pollutants. She is looking forward to returning to Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where she worked on her thesis on manganese and was inspired to pursue a degree in environmental health.
Tamara says she is deciding between two long term career goals. She is considering medical school eventually working as a doctor in rural Latin America. She may also continue her studies to attain a Ph.D. in environmental health science with a concentration on global health.
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