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Welcome to our team's blog! Read on for updates on our investigations, in-country field visits, and other parts of our journey.
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August-September 2023 - Back to East Africa
Greetings all, Kim Hwang and I have spent the last two months in Uganda and Kenya continuing to drive our work around creating and...

Teja Sathi
Oct 21, 2023
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August 15 - Dry Run at Mbarara Hospital
On this day, we met Habert, our teammate who is supporting the slide scanning at MUST and did a dry run of the scanning and data...

Teja Sathi
Aug 15, 2023
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August 14 - Succeed We MUST
On this day, we went to Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), which is one of the top institutions for education and...

Teja Sathi
Aug 14, 2023
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August 12 - Aug 13 - Crossing the Equator
We spent the weekend making the 5.5 hour drive from Kampala to Mbarara. This trip involved crossing the equator, listening to lots of...

Teja Sathi
Aug 13, 2023
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August 11 - Dry Run at Mulago Hospital
On this day, we returned to Mulago and UCI, did a practice-run of the scanning and data-recording protocol with our Cytotechnologist...

Teja Sathi
Aug 11, 2023
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August 10 - UWOCASO, MakSPH, and Dinner with Malaria-focused Colleagues
On this day we went back to Mulago Pathology to continue our dry run of the IRB protocol, visited Madame Gertrude at UWOCASO and Dr....

Teja Sathi
Aug 10, 2023
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August 9 - Pathology Central
We spent the day at the epicenter of pathology services in Uganda with the people that make it all happen. It was a day of sharing the...

Teja Sathi
Aug 9, 2023
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August 8 - Interview amidst a downpour
Today, the graduate team was double-booked in the morning with shadowing a surgical procedure, so as their TA’s, Kim Hwang and I made the...

Teja Sathi
Aug 8, 2023
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August 7 - The UCI, Makerere University Pathology Lab, a meeting at the Ministry, and a BME Dinner
Uganda Cancer Institute Our Monday started with a classic Kampala traffic jam en route to the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) expertly...

Teja Sathi
Aug 7, 2023
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August 3 - August 6 - Travel Diaries
This trip, we are accompanied by a new team of graduate students from the JHU Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID). The...

Teja Sathi
Aug 6, 2023
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