Samoa: An Interprofessional Public Health Case Study
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Susana Nimarota-Brown
Principal Public Health Nurse
Samoa Typhoid Fever Surveillance Initiative
Susana Nimarota-Brown is the Principal Public Health Nurse for the Samoa Typhoid Fever Surveillance Initiative, a UMB collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Samoa.
After earning her Bachelors of Nursing at the National University of Samoa in 2013, Susana worked as a community nurse in the Safotu Rural District Hospital near her home on Savaii. Then, she moved to the capital town of Apia on Upolu to work two years at the national hospital in the Intensive Care Unit followed by two years as a Registered Nurse for the U.S. Peace Corps in Samoa.
In addition to her leadership role on the typhoid team, Susana is currently a part-time Global Health M.S. student and Henriatta Selle Tiri Scholar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Her concentration and interests are in global health program implementation and dissemination science.
Michael Sikorski
6th Year MD-PhD Candidate
UMB Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Michael Sikorski is a 6th year MD-PhD candidate at UMB in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
Michael studied Bioengineering at the University of Maryland College Park before spending one year conducting tissue engineering research in Madrid, Spain as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. Upon his matriculation at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Michael joined Dr. Mike Levine at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health on global health projects in Chile and Samoa related to typhoid fever surveillance and control. Michael joined Dr. Dave Rasko’s lab at the Institute for Genome Sciences to focus his studies on the genomics and epidemiology of typhoid fever in Samoa, working very closely with Susana and the typhoid team on a weekly basis since 2018.
He is finalizing his PhD thesis on this topic for defense in April.
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