Meet Maria (Schultz) De Borba-Silva:
Maria (Schultz) De Borba-Silva just finished her first year of the doctor of public health, health education degree program. She served in Ecuador from 1991-1993 as a small business volunteer in both Sarguro (Loja) and Cuenca, working with Saraguran Indian artisans and a girls’ vocational high school in Cuenca.
After the Peace Corps, Maria worked in strategic planning/account services for a Hispanic advertising agency and a medical education company in New York City. Moving to California in 2001, she received her master of public health degree in community health sciences, from University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. She currently works two days per week as a cardiovascular pharmaceutical sales representative for Bristol-Myers Squibb and has just begun an internship with the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health Tobacco Use Reduction Now (TURN) program.
As a Peace Corps Fellow, she was a teaching assistant for HPRO 536, program planning and evaluation, and is now a research assistant for Loma Linda University’s Center for Health Disparities, working on an NIH grant-supported, African-American prostate cancer curriculum.
