Liliana Candida Dengo-Baloi (MSc Control of Infectious Diseases, 2019) works as Head of Central Office for Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation, for the National Health Institute Mozambique. In this blog piece, she describes how Mozambique has been dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and her role in the surveillance of…
Nurul Maretia Rahmayanti (MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing, 2019) works as a Health Financing and Policy Specialist at The National Team for The Acceleration of Poverty Reduction, Office of Vice President, Government of Indonesia. Here, she explains how her role has changed since COVID-19 and how she…
Shweta Jindal (MSc Public Health for Development, 2018) describes her experience helping vulnerable families through lockdown in India.
“As an LSHTM alumna, I feel a sense of great pride but at the same time responsibility in being capable of contributing constructively towards COVID-19 relief efforts. I am a…
Christopher da Costa (MSc Clinical Tropical Medicine, 1986 and PhD, 1991) will be joining the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEPI) as a Vaccine Development Project Leader next month. He currently works as a consultant to a variety of US biotechnology companies and to the US Food and Drug…
Amira Shaheen (Epidemiology and Population Health, PhD 2009) works as an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at An-Najah National University, Palestine. Here, she discusses her role within the National Epidemiological Committee helping to decide preventative measures in Palestine. She also describes Palestine’s response to the pandemic.
How has the…
Laura Ferreira (MSc Public Health – Environment and Health, 2011) is the Scheme-Manager at Home-Start Wandsworth. In this blog piece, she speaks about how she is helping vulnerable families through this pandemic.
How has the COVID-19 outbreak affected your work?
At Home-Start Wandsworth we deliver early intervention…
Anis Kazi (MSc Public Health, 2012) works within the Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) World Health Organization (WHO) as an Information and Planning Consultant for the Health Emergencies Program. He shares what his role in Emergency Response has been like since the start of COVID-19.
How has the COVID…
Dr Hana Rohan is Assistant Professor in Social Science at LSHTM and a member of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team. She completed her PhD at LSHTM in 2010 and is now supporting the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in responding to the COVID-19…
Emily Holman’s (MSc Control of Infectious Diseases, 2010) role as a Communicable Disease Controller for Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services has seen drastic changes since the emergence of the novel coronavirus. Find out how she has been responding to the outbreak using surveillance and the challenges…
Neale Batra (MSc Epidemiology, 2016) describes how his life has changed since first hearing about COVID-19 in January. He speaks about his work for the World Health Organization (WHO) unravelling the, now, pandemic and how he made the switch from tackling the outbreak from a global to a local…
COVID-19 Alumni Stories: Liliana Candida Dengo-Baloi
July 8, 2020
COVID-19 Alumni Stories: Nurul Maretia Rahmayanti
July 8, 2020
COVID-19 Alumni Story: Shweta Jindal
July 4, 2020
COVID-19 Alumni Stories: Christopher da Costa
June 29, 2020
COVID-19 Alumni Stories: Amira Shaheen
June 25, 2020
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