{"id":63268,"date":"2018-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/11\/09\/student-spotlight-orphee-tamba-lusakumunu\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T20:55:50","slug":"student-spotlight-orphee-tamba-lusakumunu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/11\/09\/student-spotlight-orphee-tamba-lusakumunu\/","title":{"rendered":"Student spotlight &#8211; Orphee Tamba Lusakumunu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Education is one of the four pillars of UNMC&#8217;s mission and our students are the lifeblood of that aspect of campus life. <\/p>\n<p>In UNMC Today&#8217;s Student Spotlight, we get to know some of these students, who will become tomorrow&#8217;s health care professionals. <\/p>\n<p>Today we meet:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Name:<\/b> Orphee Tamba Lusakumunu\n<li><b>Hometown:<\/b> Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)\n<li><b>Program\/Year:<\/b> Master&#8217;s in public health\/Maternal and Child Health\/expect to graduate in 2019<\/ul>\n<p><b>What sparked your interest in public health?<\/b><br \/>\nDuring one of my internships in a hospital in Kinshasa\/DRC, I noticed that it was common to see women lose their own lives giving life, or young children under five die for diseases that I thought we could manage in a hospital setting only. I distinctly remember a 4-year-old girl who wanted to become a doctor. During her hospitalization, she used to ask me when she would be back to school. Unfortunately, she passed away a few days later because of anemia. I then decided to understand how we could have saved her life. This sad experience led me to realize that the solution was not only related to medical practices within the hospital but also outside of the hospital with other stakeholders. My approach was purely public health without noticing it. A few years later, I got my Fulbright Scholarship to pursue my Master&#8217;s in Public Health\/Maternal and Child Health at UNMC.<\/p>\n<p><b>List three songs on your playlist:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;Because He Lives I Can Face Tomorrow,&#8221; Gloria and Bill Gaither\n<li> &#8220;Cornerstone,&#8221; Hillsong\n<li> &#8220;10,000 reasons,&#8221; Matt Redman<\/ul>\n<p><b>Your favorite study snack is:<\/b><br \/>\nKettle cooked chips<\/p>\n<p><b>Your favorite app is:<\/b><br \/>\nWhatsApp<\/p>\n<p><b>Three things people may not know about you.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I met President Barack Obama and shook hands with him in 2015 in Washington, D.C.\n<li>I have Swedish origins through my mother. My name could have been Westerhult.\n<li>The three most important things to me:\n<ul>\n<li>My relationship with God.\n<li>My family (my wife Orly and my three-year-old son Juan Elyor).\n<li>My role as a public health professional.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College of Public Health student is a Fulbright Scholar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":63269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","department-college-of-public-health","department-unmc-today-todays-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Student spotlight - Orphee Tamba Lusakumunu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"College of Public Health student is a Fulbright Scholar.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/11\/09\/student-spotlight-orphee-tamba-lusakumunu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Student spotlight - Orphee Tamba Lusakumunu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"College of Public Health student is a Fulbright Scholar.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/11\/09\/student-spotlight-orphee-tamba-lusakumunu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-11-09T06:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-29T20:55:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Orphee1107.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"705\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Keenan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Keenan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.unmc.edu\\\/newsroom\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/09\\\/student-spotlight-orphee-tamba-lusakumunu\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.unmc.edu\\\/newsroom\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/09\\\/student-spotlight-orphee-tamba-lusakumunu\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"John Keenan\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.unmc.edu\\\/newsroom\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/59c9598a54f1a531c30cccc1d010ac17\"},\"headline\":\"Student spotlight &#8211; 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