One of the best learning experiences I’m having during my time in Mbale is the field work. This is when we join one of the (District Health Office) DHO teams and head out into the district to do some investigating, support supervision, or assessments of various health issues. On a typical day we arrive at …
The past two weeks have been pretty busy both in and out of lab. Celebrating both Kat and Ayri’s birthdays, we traveled to Kenting and Taipei for some weekend relaxation. Though, lab has been really sobering in understanding the nature of science. There’s been many ups and downs in lab; we haven’t been able to …
Favian here again! We have finally finished all of the interviews in the community and are now in the process of completing our write-ups. This has certainly been an all group effort from conducting 100 interviews in both Huanchaco and Huanchcaquito to inputting them into a massive Google Docs spreadsheet. There were many ups and …
Hello everyone! As we enter the last couple of weeks of our trip here in Taiwan, I am starting to realize that time flies quickly, especially when you have busy weeks! Our work in Dr. Li’s lab has picked up tremendously these past couple weeks, especially because our grad student, Kelly, had to return to …
The end is approaching and it is exciting to see our project come to an end. The Peru team has done a really good job about putting our results together. Elide and I have finished our qualitative analysis from each town, Kennedi has done a keen job with the new plant list, Francisco and Favian …
Doing field work in Jesus Maria was much different in comparison to Huanchaco and Huanchaquito. The reason for this difference from my perspective is the rural environment of the community. In Huanchaco, the tourist environment makes it a more friendly atmosphere to people coming from other countries. Huanchaquito is a right balance of both of …
When visiting these two archaeological sites I was struck by the similarity between the two. The El Brujo archaeological site predates the one of Huaca de la Luna, however, the sites seemed to be built by the same people who built the Huaca de la Luna. According to the people working in the sites the …
As the fieldwork for our project came to a close, we began to open a whole new chapter of our research, Data Analysis. The battle begins, PeruTeam vs. Data Analysis. Who will win in the end? Collecting the data is one project, the next is breaking down all the information you just found and making …
Hello all! We finished our 200 surveys about three weeks ago and started inputting the data we got two weeks ago. My part was to input all the raw data we got from the peri-urban town of Huanchaquito into to tables that were simple to understand and demonstrated the accurate data collected. Our project revolves …
Week 5: We were finally able to start the first part of our exercise intervention using the DAQ Air Pressure Pillow (a device created by the lab) on healthy subjects (members of our lab plus Kat and Brendon). We also performed everyone’s “pre” test on a Biodex machine that we’ll later compare to their “post” test …
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SDSU Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training
