Welcome a new cohort of Global Health-ers

This blog is a way to update your friends when you are doing research or throwing a large bash. I will send out an email so that anybody can post or be the administer. I think that the best people responsible for it is the social committee or anyone who knows where the best happy hours are!

There are continuing global health-ers who are not on the email list but follow this blog so it is a nice way to retain social networks.

Welcome and hope you are doing great!
Best,
Noah

Long Post about researching on my own blog...didn't want to take up a lot space here :)
miss you all, N

My project is in full swing and I have been interviewing people in their villages...it has both been tiresome, wonderful, boring, exciting, enlightening.

A normal day involves networking with people in the province town, preparing for interviews. Motorbiking 45 minutes or more through rice fields to meet some villagers. Sometimes the interviews work great other times not so much. I have interviewed around 25-30 people so far but didn't record all of them and not going to use all of them so want to get more indepth deeper interviews.

Health is a different concept here and it is tricky to figure how to ask about it especially when my target audience doesn't think much about it. Also, everyone is in the field planting rice so I have about 2 hrs a day when I can meet with people 5-7pm so I get a lot of riding in twilight. It is super beautiful here and people are being so kind and wonderful. Here are some pics from the last few days:

riding back from interviews

the snake I ate when I was introducing myself to the village leader

my research assistant

the temple from one of the villages

a traditional healer and his buffalo: traditional medicine is still used, often combined with modern treatment

More later,
Hugs, N
PS Kai Your pictures look beautiful I am glad you are having a great time!!!!

Hot Sudan summer

Hello to all from Khartoum, Sudan!

My life and research here go greatly. Local Sudanese people are so helpful.

Photos from bottom to up

1 I'm eating fish from the Nile.

2 Africa?

3 I will take your camel.

4 Pyramid!

5 Ward in a village hospital, where Chinese doctors have been working for 35 years.

6 My football team

7 I'm giving a presentation in Sudan Ministry of Health

Hi from Mozambique!!!!!
Miss you all, muitos e muitos beijos!!!!!!!!!!

What does Sea Turtles, Karaoke, Thai Master Students, wine coolers and the beach have in common?

My first couple days in Thailand!

Loving it but miss my seattle peeps...more to follow when I am actually doing stuff besides petting sea turtles, rocking out to thai songs on a bus and sitting by the ocean...
Cheers, hugs N

erin and joanna are in lima, peru!

hello everyone! we are so excited to keep you updated with our lives here in Peru!

so i will post here a few key notes about what we've been up to, a few pictures, but for the full story (and the silly details) go to my blog at: http://joannaperu2009.blogspot.com/

or give me (joanna) a call at: 011-511-988681339

highlights from peru thus far:
-we've met some really great contacts who we adore
-we've seen a lot of lima (Mostly miraflores and canta gallo, a shanty town where we will be doing some of our research and public health work)
-we've met the leaders of the canta gallo Shipibo indigenous group and discussed health education workshops that we'll start doing next week
-we've been out on the town in miraflores, which has a great nightlife scene!
-we miss everyone so much!

some pictures: