The "China Adventure" starts again!
After a nine-month hiatus (due to my graduate studies at UCLA), the "China Adventure" emails will be starting again! Once again I'm headed for Taiwan, but with a slightly different twist - I will be working full-time instead of studying. I have secured a summer internship with the Taipei Health Department evaluating their HIV prevention program for intravenous drug users. I'm sure you could come up with much better ideas for a summer vacation, but I'm excited about this because it's a great opportunity for me to fulfill the internship requirement for my Master's degree by working in a region where I have had so many great experiences and met so many wonderful people. In addition, thanks to generous support from UCLA's Bixby Program for Population and Reproductive Health, and the Drabkin Fund for international health, I will not have to moonlight as an English teacher in order to pay for my internship. I look forward to sharing more "China Adventures" (and photos too!) with you over the next few months as I work with the Health Department to keep Taiwan healthy.

The start of the next adventure is only six weeks away!