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18-year-old earns partial scholarship to Howard University: Hailey Jeffers gets closer to her dreams
HAILEY Jeffers has big dreams. She hopes to make a major impact in the field of paediatric neurology in Trinidad and Tobago, and she is now one step closer to doing so. The 18-year-old Naparima Girls’ High School student has earned a partial scholarship to Howard University in the US to study biology.
In an interview on June 17, the Marabella native told Newsday that while her first love was always music, she eventually became intrigued by science.“I had a relative who was born with birth defects and he died at five years old. He had to seek treatment abroad for surgery for his complications, and I always wondered – What if we had more resources here? How many more children could be saved or could be allowed to live normal lives like other children their age?”
“I want to do research in that field because I want to come back to TT and try to develop it further…We have a lot of underdeveloped fields (within medicine), specifically for children and certain types of surgeries. So that's definitely something I want to focus on evolving, especially when it comes to paediatrics.”
HAILEY Jeffers has big dreams. She hopes to make a major impact in the field of paediatric neurology in Trinidad and Tobago, and she is now one step closer to doing so. The 18-year-old Naparima Girls’ High School student has earned a partial scholarship to Howard University in the US to study biology.
In an interview on June 17, the Marabella native told Newsday that while her first love was always music, she eventually became intrigued by science.“I had a relative who was born with birth defects and he died at five years old. He had to seek treatment abroad for surgery for his complications, and I always wondered – What if we had more resources here? How many more children could be saved or could be allowed to live normal lives like other children their age?”
“I want to do research in that field because I want to come back to TT and try to develop it further…We have a lot of underdeveloped fields (within medicine), specifically for children and certain types of surgeries. So that's definitely something I want to focus on evolving, especially when it comes to paediatrics.”
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