My name is Michael D. Green, and I am a member of the Dartmouth College’s graduating class of 2021. I was born in Columbia, Maryland and currently split my time between Roxboro, North Carolina and Ellicott City, Maryland. I graduated from Wauwatosa West High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I am a varsity athlete on the Heavyweight Rowing team, which I joined without any prior experience during the winter of my Freshman year.
Growing up, many of my family members and loved ones suffered through numerous health ailments. Ever since I was young I was always focused on the “why” questions regarding these ailments. As I matured through my academic career those why questions became more complex. Why is there so much socio-economic disparity in the world? Why are there so many disparities in health outcomes? Why are environmental conditions deteriorating in certain regions?
Currently, I believe that I need to use the information I gained on “why” issues occur in order to apply them to questions on “how” we can disrupt these issues. I wish to focus on methodology for fixing many of the problems that I spent so much of my early life pondering.
I am an Anthropology Major and Environmental Science minor. I believe that these areas of concentration will provide me good background in my quest of developing methodology to decrease health inequities. I plan to pursue a career in public health, specifically as a cardiovascular racial health disparities researcher. I hope that I am able to illuminate, and eventually solve, public health issues that are caused by social determinants of health.