Kelli Barbour (SOM). Kelli
has a BS in Microbiology and MA in German Literature, Brigham Young University. Passionate
about travel, Kelli has lived, studied, and worked
in Austria, Guatemala, and Tanzania.
Her interests include working with underserved populations,
medical education, and global health. Most recently,
Kelli worked at Muhimbili University of Health and
Allied Sciences in Tanzania,
as a part of her UCSF Area of Concentration (AoC)
in Global Health, to improve teaching of anatomy to
Tanzanian students and to reinforce capacity building.
She is especially interested in medical education
in developing countries.
Radhika Chigurupati (SOD), Associate Clinical Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS). She received her dental degree from Bombay University, completed OMFS residency at the University of Washington, and a Pediatric Cleft and Craniofacial Anomalies Fellowship from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Radhika is interested in decreasing global burden of cleft lip and palate, and oral cancer by improving access for the rural poor through health technology interventions such as telemedicine. She is a board member of SAATHII (Solidarity And Action Against The HIV/AIDS In India) a US NGO based in India, and an active health education volunteer (HVO, Smiletrain) who has travelled to India, Guatemala and Peru.
Trevor Jensen (SOM). Trevor is currently in the middle of his MS III year at UCSF. Before medical school Trevor received a BA in Philosophy (premed) at Dartmouth, where he worked with a newly founded NGO, the International Humanitarian Foundation, in Costa Rica and India. Currently on the board of this organization, his work has primarily involved improved cookstove implementation. At UCSF, he spent the summer of 2007 working with Grant Dorsey in rural Uganda, setting up malarial surveillance units. A continuation of this project, focused on estimating the disease burden of malaria in Uganda, will form the basis of his MS fieldwork.
SoSon Jong (SON). SoSon just completed her MS in advanced Community Health and International Nursing at UCSF. Korean by birth, SoSon received her BS in Nursing at Seoul National University. She spent two years as a volunteer nurse at Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, learning fluent Amharic. Her broad global health interest is in community health and access to care. Her proposed fieldwork is to design a TB prevention program in HIV positive Asian migrants (women).
Jayalakshmi “Ammu” Ravindran (SOM). (SOM). Jayalakshmi received a BS and MS from Stanford in biological sciences, spending time in the Fauci lab at NIH, and has currently completed her MS III year at UCSF. She has spent volunteer time with local underserved communities through Americorps and the UCSF Students’ Homeless Clinic. For her field project she has linked up with San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) pediatric faculty to work on neonatal health education in Southeast Asia.
Robin Tittle (SOM) Robin has completed her MS III year. She received a BA in psychology from Brown and has lived and worked in Kenya and Thailand. She is passionate about health equity, and spent her AoC summer working in Kisumu, Kenya on a cell phone project to network HIV information for health care workers. Her field project, an extension of her AoC, will bring improved irrigation resources to HIV+ farmers in Kenya.
Robert Wyrod (TAPS fellow). Robert received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2007, and he is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF. His research focuses on gender and AIDS prevention in sub-Saharan Africa, and his doctoral dissertation was a year-long ethnographic study of AIDS and masculinity in the Ugandan capital Kampala. For his MS fieldwork, Robert will return to Uganda to conduct follow-up research with key informants and with a local NGO working to combine domestic violence prevention with AIDS prevention.
Kelli Barbour (SOM). Kelli
has a BS in Microbiology and MA in German Literature, Brigham Young University. Passionate
about travel, Kelli has lived, studied, and worked
in Austria, Guatemala, and Tanzania.
Her interests include working with underserved populations,
medical education, and global health. Most recently,
Kelli worked at Muhimbili University of Health and
Allied Sciences in Tanzania,
as a part of her UCSF Area of Concentration (AoC)
in Global Health, to improve teaching of anatomy to
Tanzanian students and to reinforce capacity building.
She is especially interested in medical education
in developing countries.
Radhika Chigurupati (SOD), Associate Clinical Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS). She received her dental degree from Bombay University, completed OMFS residency at the University of Washington, and a Pediatric Cleft and Craniofacial Anomalies Fellowship from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Radhika is interested in decreasing global burden of cleft lip and palate, and oral cancer by improving access for the rural poor through health technology interventions such as telemedicine. She is a board member of SAATHII (Solidarity And Action Against The HIV/AIDS In India) a US NGO based in India, and an active health education volunteer (HVO, Smiletrain) who has travelled to India, Guatemala and Peru.
Trevor Jensen (SOM). Trevor is currently in the middle of his MS III year at UCSF. Before medical school Trevor received a BA in Philosophy (premed) at Dartmouth, where he worked with a newly founded NGO, the International Humanitarian Foundation, in Costa Rica and India. Currently on the board of this organization, his work has primarily involved improved cookstove implementation. At UCSF, he spent the summer of 2007 working with Grant Dorsey in rural Uganda, setting up malarial surveillance units. A continuation of this project, focused on estimating the disease burden of malaria in Uganda, will form the basis of his MS fieldwork. 
SoSon Jong (SON). SoSon just completed her MS in advanced Community Health and International Nursing at UCSF. Korean by birth, SoSon received her BS in Nursing at Seoul National University. She spent two years as a volunteer nurse at Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, learning fluent Amharic. Her broad global health interest is in community health and access to care. Her proposed fieldwork is to design a TB prevention program in HIV positive Asian migrants (women). 
Jayalakshmi “Ammu” Ravindran (SOM). (SOM). Jayalakshmi received a BS and MS from Stanford in biological sciences, spending time in the Fauci lab at NIH, and has currently completed her MS III year at UCSF. She has spent volunteer time with local underserved communities through Americorps and the UCSF Students’ Homeless Clinic. For her field project she has linked up with San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) pediatric faculty to work on neonatal health education in Southeast Asia.
Robin Tittle (SOM) Robin has completed her MS III year. She received a BA in psychology from Brown and has lived and worked in Kenya and Thailand. She is passionate about health equity, and spent her AoC summer working in Kisumu, Kenya on a cell phone project to network HIV information for health care workers. Her field project, an extension of her AoC, will bring improved irrigation resources to HIV+ farmers in Kenya. 
Robert Wyrod (TAPS fellow). Robert received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2007, and he is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF. His research focuses on gender and AIDS prevention in sub-Saharan Africa, and his doctoral dissertation was a year-long ethnographic study of AIDS and masculinity in the Ugandan capital Kampala. For his MS fieldwork, Robert will return to Uganda to conduct follow-up research with key informants and with a local NGO working to combine domestic violence prevention with AIDS prevention.
