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<\/a>Through a Wright State professor, Deak obtained an internship with Public Health \u2013 Dayton & Montgomery County. The agency protects the air, food, drinking water and community health by inspecting restaurants, motels, schools, swimming pools, tattoo parlors and other establishments.<\/p><\/div>\n
Deak\u2019s interest in public health grew out of his passion for the environment. That passion was fueled by his mother, who taught chemistry and honors anatomy and zoology at Lakota East High School.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mom being that science teacher, I always grew up knowing that this is what nature is, this is how important it is, this is why it\u2019s valuable,\u201d said Deak, who loves hiking, kayaking and gardening. \u201cI\u2019d always gone to the zoo and learned how important wildlife is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deak enjoyed his time at Lakota East. Although his class was large\u2014about 650 students\u2014Deak knew many of the teachers because of his mother and \u201cwasn\u2019t just another face in the crowd.\u201d He also excelled on the lacrosse field, playing on the school\u2019s first lacrosse team his junior year and ascending to varsity captain his senior year.<\/p>\n
After graduation, Deak enrolled at Marietta College. But he quickly transferred to Wright State and jumped on the environmental health track.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe program is great here. It\u2019s taught primarily by adjunct professors, who have jobs during the day,\u201d Deak said. \u201cI found that to be very helpful because I got to see hands-on experience from people who are in the field right now. This is the cutting edge; this is what literally happened earlier today in the field, and I got to see exactly what that was like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deak also said class sizes in the environmental department were very manageable, usually 15 to 20 students.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat provided a lot of interaction with professors, which is what I like,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I have questions, I can ask them. I\u2019m not just a number on a list. I\u2019m somebody to them. They know who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Deak\u2019s interest in public health grew out of his passion for the environment. That passion was fueled by his mother, who taught chemistry and honors anatomy and zoology at Lakota East High School.<\/p><\/div>\n
Another career-boosting move came when Deak got involved in Chi Alpha Campus Ministries and became a Christian.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat really changed my life, changed who I am,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it really just helped me get the confidence to achieve what I needed to do to become a sanitarian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through a Wright State professor, Deak obtained an internship with Public Health \u2013 Dayton & Montgomery County. The agency protects the air, food, drinking water and community health by inspecting restaurants, motels, schools, swimming pools, tattoo parlors and other establishments.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen one goes out to eat, they are expecting that the food they\u2019re eating isn\u2019t contaminated with salmonella or something\u2014and I want to make sure that\u2019s the case,\u201d Deak said. \u201cPeople go to a swimming pool and they expect that it\u2019s clean. We need to make sure the pool has the right chemicals to keep it clean. My dream job is to be a registered sanitarian in Ohio, which would be going out and doing those inspections in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deak won two summer internships and the 2011 Ohio Environmental Health Association\u2019s George Engle Memorial Scholarship. And he was selected as Student of the Month for March by the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs.<\/p>\n
In early June, Deak took a position at a Sanitarian-In-Training with Greene County Combined Health District.<\/p>\n
Inspection jobs require a bachelor\u2019s degree and registration by the State Board of Sanitarian Registration. If Deak passes the board\u2019s state exam to be a registered sanitarian, he will be able to do full-time inspections on his own.<\/p>\n
Deak said Wright State helped get him to where he is today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel very prepared to go out into my field and succeed,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m going to take what I\u2019ve learned at Wright State and give it back to the surrounding area.\u201d<\/p>\n
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