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We are the future of public health: Why we feel challenged and unprepared

If somebody had told us last year that our public health study at Yale University would end abruptly due to a global viral pandemic, potentially the biggest public health crisis of our generation, it would have been hard to believe. What was one of the most exciting and stimulating years of our lives, came to an abrupt halt in the last few weeks. Students were told to leave campus, classes were moved online, and university life, as we knew it, was suddenly over.