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Master of Public Health

Recent graduate’s global health practicum project with CDC published in NEJM

Posted by on Monday, February 19, 2018 in News .

2017 graduate Grace Umutesi, M.P.H., is an author on this NEJM article (N Engl J Med. 2018 Feb 14. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1710430), based on her practicum with the CDC's Global Immunization Division. Grace's practicum activities in Summer 2016 included: 

  • Providing on-site support for the mass vaccination campaign targeting 10 million people in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Coordinating activities with the Institut Nationale de Recherche Biomedicale in Kinshasa to set up a study to evaluate the effectiveness of the fractional dose of Yellow Fever among the people who were going to be vaccinated during the vaccination campaign
  • Drafting and editing the Protocol for ethical committee review through the Kinshasa School of Public Health
  • Consolidating SOPs and training materials as well as data collection forms