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Feeling a lot better in general, think I'm over the bug, once again. Let's see, the past few days I've been working on coding Stata to automate a lot of outputs, so nothing's really changed on that front. I'm just playing around with graphs now, and how to get nice outputs, which is slow and tedious, and involves a lot of looking at examples, and seeing how vastly complicated they are, and then stealing techniques like a spy.
The other exciting news is that though I thought that I would be going to Kunungu, which is this high mountainous pretty region in the south-western corner of Uganda, there's a big group going out to Tororo, which is EAST, near the Kenyan border, then from there, the caravan is going to Apac again, then back home. It looks like a trip out east on Wed, then on Thurs in Apac, then back either Thurs night late or on Fri, so hopefully it'll be fun and interesting. Apparently Tororo and Apac are the most malaria plagued parts of the country. It looks like the goal in Tororo is to recruit a "cohort," which apparently is not a cohort study like I've learned in epi- it's more like just a bunch of kids that get recruited, regardless of anything besides the fact that they're young, then following them up for a long time, and visiting them at the end of every month period. Seems pretty unfocused, but since malaria, the outcome of interest, happens so frequently, by getting some periodic data, I suppose they can figure out what exposures might be causing kids to have more or less malaria. We'll have to see what I can find out on the trip.
A new person has arrived today, and 2 more are coming tomorrow. Phil Rosenthal, another big malaria/hiv guy from the Bay Area (think he's UCSF and UCB affiliated, maybe more UCB side) has come, and will be here for 2 weeks. Tomorrow 2 females will be coming in- one for the surveillance project I'm on, and another one who I think is affiliated with Edwin's work. As a result, Grant and I have moved from the second floor 2 bedroom room to the third floor, to share the big 3 bed room with Sam, who came yesterday. Everyone's pouring in it seems- and on top of that, Art is coming in the next 2 weeks or so, making this house officially overbooked, and someone will be on a couch for a few days. We'll see how it all works.
The other exciting news is that though I thought that I would be going to Kunungu, which is this high mountainous pretty region in the south-western corner of Uganda, there's a big group going out to Tororo, which is EAST, near the Kenyan border, then from there, the caravan is going to Apac again, then back home. It looks like a trip out east on Wed, then on Thurs in Apac, then back either Thurs night late or on Fri, so hopefully it'll be fun and interesting. Apparently Tororo and Apac are the most malaria plagued parts of the country. It looks like the goal in Tororo is to recruit a "cohort," which apparently is not a cohort study like I've learned in epi- it's more like just a bunch of kids that get recruited, regardless of anything besides the fact that they're young, then following them up for a long time, and visiting them at the end of every month period. Seems pretty unfocused, but since malaria, the outcome of interest, happens so frequently, by getting some periodic data, I suppose they can figure out what exposures might be causing kids to have more or less malaria. We'll have to see what I can find out on the trip.
A new person has arrived today, and 2 more are coming tomorrow. Phil Rosenthal, another big malaria/hiv guy from the Bay Area (think he's UCSF and UCB affiliated, maybe more UCB side) has come, and will be here for 2 weeks. Tomorrow 2 females will be coming in- one for the surveillance project I'm on, and another one who I think is affiliated with Edwin's work. As a result, Grant and I have moved from the second floor 2 bedroom room to the third floor, to share the big 3 bed room with Sam, who came yesterday. Everyone's pouring in it seems- and on top of that, Art is coming in the next 2 weeks or so, making this house officially overbooked, and someone will be on a couch for a few days. We'll see how it all works.
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