By sharing the stories behind the numbers, an Emory College student spotlights gaps in health care access for undocumented migrants in Morocco due to the current realities of global policies and the pandemic.
Madelyn R. Haden’s honors thesis illuminates how European Union (EU) policy and funding affects individual sub-Saharan migrants’ lives and experiences, including health care access and societal integration in Morocco. She received highest honors for the thesis and graduates this spring with a bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern and South Asian studies and a minor in human health.
“In my early research, it looked like Morocco was doing everything right on paper, but when I talked to the people with migrant status, it was clear that numbers don’t tell the full story,” Haden says. “Framing at a massive scale doesn’t really show the human cost and consequences of these policies and how they dehumanize the people.”
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Like many in our pre-pandemic world, Emory College of Arts and Sciences senior Christie Jones hadn’t given much thought to potential health impacts from the ways people interact with the environment.
Then came an undergraduate research job in the lab of Emory disease ecologist Thomas Gillespie. Her work identifying the mites, biting flies and other ectoparasites on bats helped give new insight into the role that relationship may play in transmitting
Bartonella, the bacteria behind several human diseases.
By the time COVID-19 brought renewed attention to other diseases caused by germs spreading between animals and people, Jones was well into her own research in addition to graduate-level coursework.
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Rollins receives $6 million grant from Gilead’s HIV initiative
Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health has announced a $6 million grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc. over three years to continue to build the capacity of organizations working on the frontlines of the HIV crisis in communities across the Southern United States.
Emory will serve as one of four Gilead COMPASS coordinating centers alongside the Southern AIDS Coalition, the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, and Wake Forest School of Divinity to provide direct support to local community organizations to help mitigate the HIV epidemic in the South.
This is part of a second wave of funding from Gilead, manufacturer of antiretroviral therapies for HIV/AIDS. Emory’s COMPASS coordinating center has directly distributed more than $4.3 million to 104 community organizations, and is directed by Neena Smith-Bankhead, director of capacity building and community engagement. More information here.