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).
Stephanie conducted research at PHRII while earning her MPH at the University of California- Berkley. She worked on the project assessing the performance of BVBlue Rapid Test among sexually active women in the region. Today Stephanie is a supervisory Microbiologist in the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
Neesha was awarded a University of California- Berkley MHIRT internship; this funded her undergraduate research work at PHRII. Although she contributed to all projects underway, she primarily focused on the HIV data collection and couselling efforts in rural communities.
Building on Jill's unique combination of educational & professional skills (film/video production/photography degree and 12 years of clinical experience in Women’s Health), she spent most of her time developing PHRII's social media presence. The goal was to raise clinic awareness and provide health information.