Summer Work focused on assisting the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program. This included work with both an Ebola project and Covid-19 project.

My role in the Ebola project was to assist with quality assurance and data homogenization. The overall goal of the project is to create a field-stable serological assay for Ebola to be used in resource strained regions.

My role in the Covid-19 project was to ascertain public opinion by screening Congolese social media posts. I then analyzed these posts and created weekly reports to be sent out to relevant stakeholders.

My thesis is a descriptive data analysis of data from a 2016 study in order to determine risk factors for transmission of human respiratory illness to habituated bonobo populations, namely in the DRC.