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Sunday, September 7, 2008 07:13:50 PM
Second year CommDev students Ivan Amezquita, Lauren Brown and Jose Lainez pose with CommDev Director Rafael Obregon after presenting at OU's Latin American Studies Conference (photo by Sandra Nahdar)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Amezquita, Brown, and Lainez present at LAS conference
Second–year CommDevers Ivan Amezquita, Lauren Brown, and Jose Lainez presented papers at the 7th annual Ohio Latin Americanist Conference on Saturday, March 1st. All three students presented work under the topic “The Role of Health Communication in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) in Latin America: Preliminary Results from Ongoing Research in Peru and Honduras.”
Ivan presented his work on Communication and Prevention of Mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT) of HIV/AIDS in Peru, Lauren presented work on The Role of Interpersonal Communication in Maternal Waiting Home Use in Rural Peru, and Jose presented on Health Communication and Folic Acid Consumption Among Women of Reproductive Age in Honduras. Congratulations to all three students on their excellent presentations!
OU starts first–ever “Save the Children” University Chapter
Ohio University students, led by first year CommDever Dianne De Guzman, have formed a university chapter of “”Save the Children” after an inspirational forum about the organization’s “Rewrite the Future” project this past January. According to Dianne, who is also the newly elected chapter president, after the forum students started asking what else they could to get involved. Says Dianne, “(STC reps) Elle Russell and Kate Conrad gave us a lot of ideas for activities on campus, but there was no leadership, no local support to ensure that these projects would be sustainable. That’s the main reason why the chapter was created, to create a foundation for future projects. Now there are a lot of other campuses expressing their interest as well.”
The group is the first–ever university chapter of “Save the Children” in the United States and is currently developing a set of goals that will focus on community service in the Appalachian area, as well as campus–based activities such as forums and discussions. Supporting international STC projects will also be a chapter objective.
For more information, please contact Dianne De Guzman at dd363007@ohio.edu.
Dr. Mario Mosquera new CommDev visiting scholar
Dr. Mario Mosquera–Vasquez arrived at Ohio University this winter and is currently serving as a visiting research scholar in the CommDev Department. Dr. Mosquera, a Colombia native, completed his graduate work in the UK, receiving an MA in Health Education from Manchester University and a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He discovered his passion for health communication while working as a health educator on issues surrounding respiratory health and diarrhea in Nicaragua. Dr. Mosquera now has twenty years of experience in the field, having worked on a diverse range of health issues throughout the world.
His presence in the CommDev program is part of an agreement between Universidad del Norte (Colombia), and Dr. Mosquera will be working primarily on three projects during his stay in Athens: Developing a child health component to East Timor’s BCC strategy, preparing and carrying out a baseline study on reproductive health for East Timor, and working with OU’s Institute of Tropical Medicine on issues surrounding Chagas Disease in Ecuador. Dr. Mosquera will also be teaching a course in Fall ’08.
Last updated: March 3, 2008
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