SCI Staff Visit (21st-23rd April) - Harvard School of Public Health
 Dr Russell
Stothard visited the Harvard School of Public Health to give a seminar
entitled ‘The challenges of schistosomiasis control’ to an assembled
audience from the Boston and Cambridge campuses. The exciting progress made
in Uganda and Zanzibar was presented, stressing the field perspective and
the specific difficulties encountered in each setting were highlighted,
compared and contrasted. After the seminar, meetings were held with
Professor Michael Reich, Dr Scott Gordon and Dr Catherine Michaud to further
synergize activities between the SCI’s surveillance and monitoring programme
and the Harvard Schistosomiasis Research Program. In particular the basis
for the forthcoming call of the next round of annual research applications
was discussed. Russell reviewed the progress of Ms Elissa Klinger, an M.Sc.
research student at Harvard, with her analyses of morbidity data collected
on Zanzibar as part of the ‘Kick out
Kichocho’ programme. The working title of Elissa’s thesis is 'An
investigation to evaluate and to quantify the levels of excreted albumin &
blood in urine from children in an endemic area for urinary schistosomiasis'.
While in Harvard, Russell took the opportunity to view the extensive dry
shell collection of Bulinus and Biomphalaria snails housed at
the Harvard Museum of Natural History shown to him by Professor Ken Boss.
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