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
