Katherine O'BrienJun 22, 20232 minEwuaso Health Center – Kajiado May 2023 In mid-May, we made a day trip west of Nairobi to a health center in Kajiado county. Ewuaso Health Center recently began a...
Katherine O'BrienJun 22, 20232 minA Trip to GilgilMay 2023 In early May, we took a day trip from Nairobi to the town of Gilgil, near Nakuru. Gilgil is known for their high prevalence of...
Katherine O'BrienJun 17, 20231 minThese students went to Kenya to find ways to prevent one of the world’s deadliest tropical diseases.You may never have heard of visceral leishmaniasis, even though it’s the second deadliest parasitic disease in the world. As far as this...
Katherine O'BrienJun 17, 20231 minConference Presentation: Housing Structures and Leishmaniasis Transmission in Baringo County, KenyaResearch presented at Northeastern's Research and Creative Endeavor, Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship Expo 2023.
Katherine O'BrienJun 17, 20231 minConference Presentation: The Socioeconomic Drivers and Impacts of LeishmaniasisThe Socioeconomic Drivers and Impacts of Leishmaniasis was presented at WorldLeish 7 in Cartagena, Colombia, in August 2022. This is the...