Jeanna was a Master of Public Health (MPH) student concentrating in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Her passion is Maternal and Child Health; she decided to complete her two month practium in India examining postnatal depression among women in the rural villages of Mysore District. She plans to enter medical school upon completion of her degree.
Sociology Public Health student Adiba was awarded a University of California- Berkley MHIRT internship; this funded her undergraduate research work at PHRII in 2016. She worked on collecting samples from rural women to examine the prevalence of HPV and cervical cancers. SHe has since spearheaded the campaign to bring reproductive rights access to California universities
Paul began his global health work with PHRII while attending the University of California- San Francisco. During his summer in Mysore he worked on the Traditional Birthing Attendants, and Fathers HPV Knowledge projects. Paul is now an Infectious Diseases Fellow at David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California- Los Angeles (UCLA).
Shirali was selected as a NIH Global Health Equity Scholar to work on her project was titled "Characterization of Lactobacillus species and their bacteriophages among in Indian women with and without bacterial vaginosis". After completing a year working on this project at PHRII, Shirali went on to earn her MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Annie's project was supported by the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURF) at Berkeley. Her project at PHRII was grounded in her maternal childhealth research interests. Specifically, Annie sought to determine whether elevated plasma levels of relaxin correlate with increased risk of GDM in pregnant Indian women.
Prajakta was selected as a NIH Global Health Equity Scholar to work on her project was titled "Community-based Cervical Cancer Screening among in Indian women in Hunsur taluk, Mysore". After completing a year working on this project at PHRII, Prajakta went on to work at the National Institutes for Health Cancer Institute.
Sarah travelled to PHRII to engage in research as a medical student. To complete her project, Sarah spent a significant amount of her time traveling to villages in rural Mysore, meeting Traditional Birth Attendants. She is now a physician in the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine.
While a medical student, Gaelle spent three months in Mysore gaining hands on skills. This included doing blood draws, vaginal swabs, and urine samples to test for kidney problems, infectious disease, and distributing antenatal supplements. Gaelle is now a physician at the Boston Medical Center.
Aaron spent his fellowship period working on Herpessimplex virus type-2 infection among pregnant women in rural regions of Mysore. After earning his doctoral degree in Public Health- Epidemiology, Aaron became a Research Scientist for the University of Washington (UW).