Congratulations to Dr. Roseanne Schuster who will be presenting Illuminating the “Black Box”: How performance-based incentives affect health workers delivering prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in rural Mozambique! This presentation will report on how performance-based incentives increased motivating supervision, decreased thoughts of leaving, and increased worker empowerment in …
Congratulations to Roseanne Schuster and former undergrad lab members Yeri Son and Jacqueline Rivera, whose abstract “I am fighting for my life”: Barriers to uptake of prevention of vertical transmission of HIV services experienced by women in rural Mozambique has been programmed for an oral presentation at …
Congratulations to our colleagues, Clara Mollay (NM-AIST) and Esther Kalonga (AATZ) et alia for winning the poster competition at the 10th McKnight Community of Practice meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi. The poster highlighted the various activities undertaken during the first phase of this project and our baseline findings …
Here’s our Kenyan team at their October monthly meeting. At this meeting, study coordinators Pauline Wekesa and Shalean Collins shared the results from the Pith Moromo study with study nurses and trackers. The team is now working together to interpret and share findings with study participants. Here’s the first taste of our …
Congratulations to Dr. Paula Pebsworth, whose abstract “Can geophagy alter the feeding ecology of non-human primates?: a systematic literature review” has been programed for an oral presentation on Tuesday, August 23 @ 4:30, at the joint meeting of the International Primatological Society and the American Society of Primatologists …
Congratulations to Dr. Natalie Krumdieck and co-authors whose manuscript “Household water insecurity is associated with a range of negative consequences among pregnant Kenyan women of mixed HIV status” was accepted into the Journal of Water and Health. This is our group’s first publication on water insecurity, …
Geophagy was focus of a recent BBC-Future story: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160615-the-people-who-cant-stop-eating-dirt. I was so happy that they took our evolutionary perspective on pica very seriously!
The Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Program (SNAP) is now successfully underway! Farmers were invited to nominate themselves and make campaign speeches before one male and one female “mentor farmer” was selected by their villages. Pictured below are the elected mentor farmers. These mentor farmers then gathered in Singida town …