Bonjour

Hello! My name is Sisi, and I am thrilled that you have wandered here.

I was born in a fishing village off the East China Sea; grew up in Atlanta, Montreal, but primarily Edmonton near the brilliant Canadian Rockies; and concentrated in biological anthropology with a secondary in East Asian Studies at Harvard.




You could call my interest in public health and international development 'personal'. My village was without a doctor in 1989, yet I was raised in arguably one of the world's most equitable and robust public health systems. Mere chance/personal luck should not determine one's access to basic health services in the year 2013. We have invented underwear embedded with electromyographic sensors that sends data to your laptop to motivate your exercise regimen (#firstworldproblems), yet childbirth is the leading cause of death among girls 15-19 in low- and middle-income countries, and vaccine-preventable diseases such as diarrhoea and pneumonia claim a child's life every twenty seconds.



At the end of April, nearly two years out of college, I worked at a life sciences consulting firm near Boston and lived in close proximity to friends whom I loved and gin-based cocktails that I could afford.

One month later, I find myself working on sustainable financing for malaria elimination in Mbabane, Swaziland. I am approximately 15,705km from Edmonton, 8,025 miles from Boston, at least six months from seeing family and friends, but I am galvanised by this opportunity with an incredible organisation in a beautiful, welcoming country. I hope you will join me on the adventure!



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