7: Improving Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa - Interview with Dr. Amy Tsui, Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
STEM Diversity Podcast
English - September 30, 2017 18:13 - 39 minutes - 28.8 MBTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Amy provides a broad overview of the field of population science and reproductive health. She talks about her role and work as professor at Johns Hopkins, as former Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute, and as President of the Population Association of America.
She talks about projects impacting families all over the world, including places like Sub-Saharan Africa where there is still a great need for reproductive education and resources.
She says that STEM by itself is not adequate. There is space around for people too that are going to be important to the whole enterprise.
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
Population Association of America
Errata from Amy
1) The Johns in Johns Hopkins is indeed a surname but it's from his great grandmother (Margaret Johns). She apparently married a Gerald Hopkins who named one of his sons, Johns. That son (Johns Hopkins) named one of his sons, Samuel. It was Samuel who chose to name his own son Johns Hopkins after his father. The latter Johns Hopkins became our university's founder. So the part that's correct is that the Johns is from a family surname!
2) Nigeria's projected growth by the end of this century is 800,000. I think I may have said 350,000, which is the projection for 2050.
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