HAPP COM Elections, Presidential Candidate

Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:16:58 -0400

Attention all Health Administration and Policy students @ UMBC! I will be running for our Council of Majors President for the 2016-2017 school year. If you want to see change, outreach, and growth in our school program, please consider my pledge as your vote.

Vote now (ends on Sunday): http://goo.gl/forms/6ty8hrWbdl

Thank you,

Naiem

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My campaign Bio:

Hi all, my name is Naiem Reza and I am a HAPP student concentrating on Health Policy and Global Health Development. As a candidate for President for HAPP COM, I am completely aware and able to increase outreach, philanthropy, and awareness in HAPP COM through my past and current experiences with health administration and public health.

As an undergraduate student, I am educated and experienced enough on fundraising, philanthropy, and public health through my internship and research experiences at: Grameen Bank, Ashoka, Genesis Healthcare, and icddr,b. I also served as the VP of Philanthropy for Maryland's Association for India's Development. At icddr,b I am working directly with the facilities acting director Dr. Abbas Bhuiya, and communicating with John's Hopkins Chair of Bloomberg's MPH Program. I am researching towards increasing fundraising, policy, and awareness for the rural medical practitioners of Bangladesh.

My blueprint as President:

- Significantly increase fundraising through collaboration with in school and out of school organizations. Extended collaboration in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore area.
- Total rebranding of HAPP COM: A consistent streamlined logo, and social-media pages that will be constantly updated for our student base and potential student base. This is critical to our outreach, which is lacking.
- Outreach: While additionally strengthening our on campus presence, I will also strengthen our off-campus presence of HAPP through HAPP COM. With our take on outreach, we will take advantage of creating a presence and strong reputation of UMBC's HAPP program off campus as well. Student awareness / reaching out to HAPP students. This can be promising and critical to the value of our HAPP program, which is beneficial to current students and alumni.
- Pre-planning: I will make sure we pre-plan our major events during the Summer, in order to keep our significant changes consistent and clear.
- Potential Committee & Student Resource Advising
a) A freshman (or underclassmen) committee will group dedicated freshman members who can work towards being high candidate board members for the future of HAPP COM.
b) HAPP underclassmen can network with health underclassmen to learn about their path at UMBC. I also think that HAPP students should be able to communicate with MPH students in our local area (Ex: Hopkins, GW, Georgetown, UMD).
c) I truly believe that if HAPP COM can excel in the next school year, we can collaborate successfully and further make our HAPP programs presence well known known in our area.

I like to think of my approach as something similar to Universal Health Coverage - we should act as healthcare workers, and try our best to make a positive change for our people.