*What*: Diana Marangu: Optimizing TB Contact Investigation in Nairobi, Kenya
*When:* Tuesday, April 22th at 12pm
*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203
Please join us tomorrow at Change. Diana Marangu will talking about her
current work on TB in Nairobi County.
*Abstract:*.
My proposed PhD work focuses on identifying barriers, facilitators and
potential solutions to TB contact investigation in Nairobi County in
Kenya. This formative research will inform the design if implementation
tools to address barriers in TB contact insuring the proposed solution
is in line with country and global efforts towards zero TB deaths,
infections, suffering and stigma. The tools I propose are hoped to
tackle stigma, sub-optimal patient education and inefficient
documentation which are potentially modifiable barriers. The
technological piece is a computerized contact register and mobile phone
follow-up platform.
*About the speaker:*
Diana Marangu is a paediatrician and tutorial fellow at the University
of Nairobi, Kenya. For the past eighth months she has been in Seattle
pursuing an MPH in Global Health while concurrently enrolled in a PhD in
Implementation Science at the University of Nairobi. She is passionate
about preventive respiratory health and finding innovative sustainable
solutions.
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