A First-hand Look at Global Health Challenges

“In our laboratories at RIT, we’re so used to having fancy equipment and immediate diagnostics. In Nigeria, they don’t have the same resources or the funding that we have, so to see them have immediate diagnostics for illnesses but using very simple methods was really cool. The turning point for me was seeing how prominent infectious diseases are in developing countries. You read about this in textbooks and you discuss the topic in class, but to experience it first-hand was really eye-opening.” 

–Janice Fung