Conceptualizing the Final Project Custom Essay

For this week’s Discussion Board post, you are supposed to formulate your version of the sentence:

"I am working on the topic of X . . .
because I want to find out Y . . .
so that I can help others understand Z . . . "

Fill in that sentence with the variable placeholders for X, Y, and Z replaced with words appropriate to your term paper project.

Select a disease (e.g., malaria, AIDS, TB, etc.) and research its impact in either Africa or the Asia/Pacific region. Consider questions like the following:
 Epidemiologically, how prevalent is this disease and what are its economic costs to society?
 Is the health care infrastructure in this region adequate to combat the spread of this disease?
 What opportunities for biomedical research does this disease pose and what would be the
attendant policy and ethical issues that would need to be addressed to conduct research in
this region of the world?

More specific details will be posted on Blackboard later in the term. But the basic purpose of this
capstone assignment is for students to apply what they have learned earlier in the semester about
international biomedical subjects to information that they find through their own research. Also,
because the writing of this paper will be an iterated process, students will be assessed in the final
paper on their ability to incorporate the revision/writing suggestions that they receive from the
instructor and one of their student peers from the first draft.