User:Anna B

Summary of me

• Helping coordinate content pertaining to health
  • safe drinking water
  • sanitation & hygene
  • HIV/AIDS
  • other infectious diseases
  • childbirth
  • women's health

• An MIT Ph.D. candidate working on a delivery system for an HIV vaccine antigen in development at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

• Water/sanitation experience
  • Worked on solar water disinfection (SoDis) through MIT D-Lab and IDEAS developing a collapsible plastic bag alternative to soda bottles
  • Performed materials analysis (porosimetry, electron microscopy) on silver-seeded ceramic pot filters made by Potters for Peace, Nicaragua
  • Small-scale field work in the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal performing water quality testing

• Languages
  • Spanish (fluent)
  • Russian (native speaker)

• Fun facts
  • MA certified volunteer EMT-B with MIT Ambulance since 2002
  • Host a weekly radio talk show called In Vivo on WMBR 88.1FM

I wish I knew you

• Mitchell N. Charity
• Seth Woodworth
• David Greisen