It’s a late post- and yet still on my mind as I think back to my last trip. I went to a semi-regular meeting on malaria called Multilateral Initiative on Malaria, or MIM, in Senegal this past April. Every few years, a country in Africa hosts the meeting, with the... Continue reading

Malawi surprised me. I had never traveled there before and never felt called to. However, an opportunity came about to test our experimental diagnostics as sub-study to a large randomized control trial looking at effective treatment for malaria infection in pregnant women. Travel to the city of Blantyre in Malawi... Continue reading

I’ve had an uneventful work week in Kampala and am currently unwinding in Entebbe- listening to the birds and the rain and music playing a few houses down. This week was different from most trips because I didn’t travel to the countryside. A week in Kampala seemed like it could... Continue reading

I recently traveled to Haiti and had no idea what to expect- this, in turn, was thrilling to me. I’ve spent most of my years working in Latin America, East and Southern Africa, and bits and pieces in SE Asia. Being in the Caribbean, and French/Creole speaking Caribbean is completely... Continue reading

My job takes me to all corners of this earth and I think of myself as a good traveler. Not because I wear the right shoes or know how to hail a cab in 3 languages, but because I’ve studied cultural exchange most of my life and pick up the... Continue reading