After 2 days of flying and a one and half hour car ride, I made it to Kampala, Uganda, where I’ll be spending the next few months doing Tuberculosis (TB) research. My colleague from UCSF has been showing me around for the past couple days getting set up with a phone, acquainting me with the area, and finalizing all the project materials, so now I feel ready to take on the summer! I’ll be writing many of the SOPs for the first part of a TB treatment implementation trial and going to hospital sites to enroll them in our study. On June 5, I’ll be going with another TB team to enroll health centers in preparation to do that myself in July. The people I’ve met at the project offices have been very welcoming and coincidentally my roommate was also a former UC Berkeley MPH IDV graduate now doing her PhD at Hopkins. (Go Bears!)
When I first started my MPH in the fall of 2017, I knew I wanted to do international TB work for my internship and I am very appreciative of the funding and support CGPH has provided to make this journey possible. I’ve done molecular TB research in the years prior to graduate school and am excited to work on studies that now focus on the public health epidemiology of the disease. Can’t wait to get immersed in the work, explore an amazing country, and get my project done this summer! Katherine Chen MPH IDV, 2019
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