summer internship

I think I found an internship! I've been contacting organizations and networking with alumni to try to find a project to work on this summer while we live in Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania. It looks like I'll be working with a grad student from Cornell on some maternal health issues, such as antenatal care, anemia, and pica (a craving pregnant women sometimes get for non-food items, such as clay, dirt, or ice).

We'll be looking at Pemban women's perceptions, definitions, constructs, and meanings of the diseases and conditions, and how we can work within their culture and situations to improve health and health care. The approach is right up my alley, though the only time I've studied maternal health specifically is when I was pregnant. And I didn't have anemia. Or pica.

Justin really likes ice, though...