Samantha Cook, BSc. - Intern

samantha.3.cook@cuanschutz.edu

Graduated at Western Washington University with a BS in Kinesiology (Pre-PT) two minors in Sport Psychology and International Studies. Studied abroad in England and Netherlands in 2016, focusing on local public health systems and their influences on a global scale.

In 2019, I started volunteering for Peace Corps in rural Senegal as Community Health Support Agent, where I worked to support the Health Facility by writing grants, organizing, co-creating pamphlets for community members to be educated by, and helped integrate the Health Facility's plans and ideas into their schedule in sustainable ways.

Currently, I'm pursing a Masters at the Colorado School of Public health in Epidemiology and Global Public Health.

Happenings

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ASAP in collaboration with the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA) and Aga Khan University (AKU) held a successful 2.5 day workshop on cancer staging with over 20 pathologists from across the ECSA region and expert faculty from the United States, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

The workshop series, held November 16-18, 2018; at AKU in Nairobi, Kenya, featured the following cancers:

Head & Neck
Breast
Endometrial & Ovarian
Gastric & Esophageal.

The sessions consisted of short, 30 minute lectures covering the most important information for solving the cases, 2-hour sessions for completing cases in small groups, and a 1-hour session where challenging, local cases were reviewed by the expert faculty.