Hello from Windhoek (sounds like Vind-Hook) the capital of beautiful Namibia! I am so excited to share this amazing country with you!
I am a global health researcher and work with people in other countries to stop diseases. There are many jobs in global health, but I work with communities to prevent diseases that make many people sick at the same time. I love global health because it allows me to be me creative in order to solve problems, and I always learn something new! Right now I have a nine month Fulbright Grant with the University of Namibia to study how communities keep themselves safe from a nasty disease called tuberculosis (or TB for short). TB creates holes in organs, often the lungs which makes the body unable to work. People get TB from breathing air where someone already sick with TB coughed. Namibia has done a great job preventing TB and curing patients who already have the disease. However for people in some Namibian communities, it can take at least eight hours to travel to a doctor. I want to interview communities in the North and South of Namibia to see how they prevent TB.
While in Namibia, I am living in one of the suburbs of the capital city Windhoek, in a small apartment (or "flat" as they are called in Namibia) in the basement of a family’s house.
