Global Health Research Seminar Series—Population Mobility Patterns and the Emergence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa

Starts:
1:00 pm on Monday, February 22, 2021
Ends:
2:00 pm on Monday, February 22, 2021
Location:
Online
URL:
https://zoom.us/j/99450043852?pwd=Q3lnT3Jsc3h6a29ISWNYZ0w4R0NRZz09
Speaker: Dr. Abdou Fofana. Bio: : Abdou Fofana is a Postdoctoral Associate at IHSIP’s Social Innovation on Drug Resistance Postdoctoral Program (SIDR), where he works with (PIs) Helen Jenkins from Biostatistics department, School of Public Health (SPH) and Jacob Bor from the department of Global Health, School of Public Health (SPH). During his PhD, Abdou worked on spatially extended mathematical models to understand disease spread and the evolution of virulence. He joined the SIDR program at Boston University to work on Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa.