Zilber student using contest to spread health message

Eight years ago, Shailja  Tiku was leading a life that was outwardly full and focused. A medical doctor with a baby, she was working on her master’s degree in public health at UW-La Crosse.

But inside, said Tiku, now a doctoral student at  the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Zilber School of Public Health, stress and anxiety were undermining her life.