Oh yeah, you might want to know where I’m going and why…

Oops. Forgot this little detail in my first post. Okay, so next month on May 15th my roommate and amazing friend (Tavia) and I will depart for Uganda. Tavia and I are both MPH students at the Colorado School of Public Health, through Colorado State University, and are also both concentrating in Global Health and Health Disparities. We will be taking a class for 3 weeks in Uganda and Rwanda with about ten other people through CU Denver in international development in East Africa. Following that class, we will both be staying in Uganda to complete our Practicum hours for our MPH degrees.

To do this, we will be working with the Global Livingston Institute to conduct research, and we will also be traveling to rural and urban health clinics to provide support and to learn from their operations. We are hoping to have our hours complete in mid July, and at that point we’re going to take off on our own for about two and a half weeks and experience Africa. We haven’t figured out that itinerary yet completely (okay at all), but we definitely want to visit Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

For more information about the CU Denver course, click here