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Bolanle Bukoye

About Bolanle Bukoye

Harvard School of Public Health
Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: The Harvard School of Public Health includes more than 200 faculty members working in various disciplines of public health. The overarching mission of the School - to advance the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication - comprises four objectives: to provide the highest level of education to public health scientists, practitioners, and leaders; to foster new discoveries leading to improved health for the people of this country and all nations; to strengthen health capacities and services for communities; and to inform policy debate, disseminate health information and increase awareness of public health as a public good and fundamental right.

Recent Contributions

Bolanle Bukoye replied to "School-delivery of ITNs -- a good idea?" in the Malaria Treatment & Prevention community.

This is a very interesting finding given that most malaria interventions are focused mainly on children below the age of 5 and pregnant women. We should however learn from the past interventions regarding ITN use. Just as Bana mentioned in the previous post, we must device ways to ensure that people not only have access to ITN's but that ITN's are being used effectively and consistently. Perhaps it is time to engage the community in ...
Bolanle Bukoye replied to "Moshi, Tanzania" in the Malaria Treatment & Prevention community.

Thanks for sharing Mitsuru! It is good to know that many of the methods that are known to be effective are actually been implemented on the ground. It is however possible that the individual you met does not have clinical malaria and the fever he complained of may simply be a manifestation of another disease. I am currently working on a project to determine the scale of overdiagnosed cases of malaria in Tanzania using data ...

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