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Why Public Health? Anthony Covarrubias


May 2014 — In our video series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what drew them to the field. Anthony Covarrubias, a doctoral student in the Biological Sciences in Public Health program, talks about growing up without health insurance, and his new determination to understand and make an impact on obesity from a molecular level.

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