Fighting TB with Music | Stats + Stories Episode 271
Pop stars are often involved in raising the visibility of public health issues. Elton John is one obvious example for his work on HIV/AIDS. Rarely, though are pop-stars involved in gathering public health stats. Ugandan pop star Bebe Cool is the exception and his work to combat tuberculosis is a focus of this episode of Stats and Stories. Sandra Alba is an epidemiologist at KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. She trained as a medical statistician in the UK and soon after moved to Tanzania to complete a PhD program on access to malaria treatment. For the past 15 years, she has applied…
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