{"id":13354,"date":"2015-07-24T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/?p=13354"},"modified":"2021-07-01T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T23:26:11","slug":"series-why-study-an-african-language-zak-gersten-and-a-laser-focus-on-public-health-in-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/2015\/07\/24\/series-why-study-an-african-language-zak-gersten-and-a-laser-focus-on-public-health-in-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Series: Why Study an African Language? Zak Gersten and a Laser Focus on Public Health in Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t learning how to order food from a restaurant,\u201d says Zak Gersten (CAS \u201911, MPH \u201915). \u201cI was learning how to actually hold a conversation with somebody about some specific area of public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Public health doesn\u2019t often make it onto a language curriculum, unless the class is small, and public health work is why the students are learning the language. That was the case for Zak, who has studied Wolof for five years, at BU and in Senegal, as an undergraduate biology major and as a Master\u2019s in Public Health candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/zak-gersten-cas-11-mph-15\/\">MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t learning how to order food from a restaurant,\u201d says Zak Gersten (CAS \u201911, MPH \u201915). \u201cI was learning how to actually hold a conversation with somebody about some specific area of public health.\u201d Public health doesn\u2019t often make it onto a language curriculum, unless the class is small, and public health work is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,6784,6783],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13358,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions\/13358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}