Undergraduate Honours student, Sierra Clark, presented her poster “The burden, determinants, and experience of Acute Gastrointestinal illness (AGI) for Indigenous Batwa-Pygmies in southwestern Uganda” at the McGill Science undergraduate research conference held October 2. Sierra was nominated by the department of Geography to present her research to a panel of judges, fellow researchers, as well as peers. Sierra’s poster comprised of her honours thesis that takes a mixed methods approach (quantitative and qualitative) to understand the burden of infectious AGI for an Indigenous Batwa population in sub-Saharan Africa.Sierra’s poster was also accepted, and presented, at The 5th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Ecology & Health that was held in Montreal August 2014.
Sierra Clark presents her poster at the McGill Science undergraduate research conference, October 2nd, 2014