Professor launches Yale-Ghana research exchange
Last summer, Emily Mosites EPH ’08 spent 11 weeks traveling the most rural areas of the Kintampo, Ghana on foot. She and her team were searching villages for people unknowingly infected with hookworm — a soil-born parasite that is a leading cause of anemia and malnutrition in the developing world.
Mosites found prevalence to be alarmingly high — with 45 percents of Ghanaians in the area infected. But of those living with the disease, many had never made it to a diagnostic facility, let alone accessed treatment.
“The closest diagnostic facility is five miles away, and people...
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