Health in Africa 2010 Symposium

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Twenty Pears Scholars from Africa, alumni of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine International MPH program presented their work at the symposium and attended a nine-day Alumni workshop of seminars and lectures sponsored by the Pears Foundation of the United Kingdom. Participants include a water and sanitation capacity building manager with the Kenya Red Cross Society, the head of monitoring and evaluation of the National Malaria Control Program for the Ministry of Health in Nigeria, the regional head of the Expanded Program on Immunization in Cameroon, a training advisor for Engender Health reproductive health organization in Ethiopia, a advisor to the WHO Africa Regional office in the Congo, and others working to combat HIV and AIDS, Malaria and TB in Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda.