February 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Honduras: Public Health: Awards: MetroWest Daily New: Beth Carlton was in the Peace Corps in Honduras where she progressed from "studying ecology to actually doing something about it."
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February 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Honduras: Public Health: Awards: MetroWest Daily New: Beth Carlton was in the Peace Corps in Honduras where she progressed from "studying ecology to actually doing something about it."
Beth Carlton was in the Peace Corps in Honduras where she progressed from "studying ecology to actually doing something about it."
Beth Carlton was in the Peace Corps in Honduras where she progressed from "studying ecology to actually doing something about it."
Celebrating difference-makers: School uses MLK event to honor contributors to public health
By Carole LaMond / Daily News Staff
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
SUDBURY -- Martin Luther King Jr. did not want to be remembered as a hero, but as "one individual who made a difference by serving others," said a student speaker at the annual Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School assembly to honor the slain American civil rights leader.
The assembly commemorates King's legacy of social justice by honoring two individuals who, in their careers or volunteer work, exemplify his ideals of service to mankind.
The Feb. 18 event honored 1994 L-S graduate Beth Carlton with the Award of Promise, a medal bestowed on an alumnus who is at least five years out of high school, for her work in public health. The Martin Luther King Jr. Award was presented to Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard Medical School physician and co-founder of Partners In Health, an organization that provides medical care to the world's poor.
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Carlton, 29, lives in New York City, where as a graduate student in public health at Columbia University, she began to study the high incidence of asthma among children living in public housing projects.
Carlton was a biology major at Yale University, but it was during service in the Peace Corps in Honduras where she progressed from "studying ecology to actually doing something about it." She worked on a land management project to improve water quality and implemented ways to vent the smoke from cook stoves out of villagers' homes.
In Honduras, Carlton observed how environmental factors hurt the health of the population, and how the scarcity of medical care exacerbated those problems.
"Public health is a great discipline because it allows you to be a scientist and mathematician, but you can't do public health without rooting yourself in a community," said Carlton, who plans to return to graduate school to study infectious disease and epidemiology. "It's really about tackling these problems people struggle with on a daily basis."
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