Prisca Awanda

Cameroon

BS Nursing

University of D.C.

Prisca Completed her secondary school in rural Cameroon and studied midwifery.  She is employed at a hospital and did outreach work with women for 12 years.  She came to the US to upgrade her professional skills.  She Will return to her hospital and continue her work with women--organizing family planning and health maintenance programs in nearby villages.

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Luz Donato-Molina

Colombia

PhD Anthropology

SUNY-Binghampton

Luz is active in women's groups and among the rural poor as a student. She has organized primary health care for campesino and Indian women in poverty stricken, isolated areas, and has taught food conservation and health maintenance.  She is interested in studying the interaction of health issues and culture.  She Will continue work with rural women when she returns to Colombia.

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Marlene Haboud

Ecuador

PhD Linguistics

University of Oregon

Marlene became interested in the problems of the rural poor as a young woman. She has worked in projects to improve women's health and nutrition in Peru and Ecuador. She was appointed to a national program in bilingual and bicultural education for the Indian population in the Andes.  She is on leave from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. She will combine university teaching and outreach work with low-income urban women when her US study is completed.

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Perfecta Hinojosa

The Philippines

PhD Resource Management/Policy

SUNY-Syracuse

While studying forestry, Perfecta became interested in the problems of poor farm families who are forest residents.  She is employed in a provincial office of the national Department of Environmental and Natural Resources.  She wants to train poor rural women in sustainable resource management. She hopes that her achievement will attract other women into social forestry.

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Ghazala Perveen

Pakistan

PhD Epidemiology

University of Oklahoma

Ghazala received her medical training in Karachi and worked in two hospitals there. Her clinical experience taught her that medical training and practice in Pakistan must move from clinical and toward preventive care, especially community-based care. She is on study leave from a teaching position in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Aga Khan University. She also trains women to provide maternal and child health care in a squatter settlement in Karachi. She returned to her university post in the spring of 1994.

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Sujitra Tiansawad

Thailand

ScD Nursing

University of Alabama

Sujitra studied nursing and midwifery at Chiang Mai University Hospital and Mahidol University in Bangkok. She teaches undergraduates and graduate students at the University Hospital in Chiang Mai and operates a health education program for pregnant and postpartum women. She's in community outreach, provides primary medical care in rural areas around Chiang Mai.  Her dissertion will examine the knowledge of HIV infection among women, especially their perception of the risk of infection. She will return to the University Hospital after US studies.

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