Public Health

In low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC), frequent health care appointments related to untreated surgical illness can impede the ability to maintain employment and contribute to poverty.

Critical to the success of global initiatives addressing surgical disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are not only efforts to provide surgical care but also to prevent surgical disease.

I plan to visit the National Public Health archive and the Hemeroteca Nacional de Mexico in Mexico City in order to review the registry of “public women,” a term which was used to refer to prostitutes.

Achieving goals in global health requires moving data into practice, but low/middle income countries struggle in performing high quality clinical research, and very few studies done and published focus on surgery and emergency care.

The UVa Center for Social Medicine will bring together faculty and students from the University of Virginia and Mbarara University of Science and Technology to imagine a new approach to access to healthcare.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, heart failure has become one of the most prevalent forms of chronic disease.

Today the United States is faced with questions about immigration policies and the conflict of those policies with the moral imperative to care for people seeking refuge from war torn areas of the world.

My dissertation focuses on an empathetic reading of narratives about abortion by French women writers and filmmakers.

I will be working with the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Geneva, Switzerland doing a comparative assessment of how migrant health policy in EU countries has effected migrant health outcomes over the past five years.

This dissertation traces the genesis and evolution of the idea that the Tristan da Cunha island group held the secrets to ameliorating poverty, disease, and environmental degradation on a global scale.