International Travel Fellowship Panel

Please join us for a panel discussion featuring CEW+ Fellowship recipients discussing their research experiences abroad in Brazil, Kenya, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, Bangladesh, and Nepal. There will be time for questions from the audience after the panel, as well as socializing and a light dinner. Families are welcome.

This event is presented with support from the Christobel Kotelewala Weerasinghe Lecture Fund and honors her commitment to cross-cultural dialogue and advancement for women. Weerasinghe was a representative from 1956-1965 at the United Nations for the World Federation of the United Nations Association in New York, where she traveled and spoke widely on behalf of the UN Association. Participants on the panel are Menakka and Essel Bailey Graduate Fellowship fund recipients. Weerasinghe was Menakka Bailey’s mother.

PANELISTS

Alyssa Brown, MPH student, Epidemiology and Global Health; Sociodemographic Patterns of Pesticide Exposure and Poisoning Among Children in São Paulo

Antonia Gitau, MPH student, Global Health Epidemiology; Life Course Health Systems and Aging Among Marginalized Populations in Kenya

Zoe Gurney, MPH ‘26, Global Health Epidemiology; Analysis of Data from Disease Surveillance System for Epidemiologic Characterization of Pertussis Outbreaks in Shanghai, China

Elizabeth Metzger, doctoral student in Epidemiology, Public Health, Injury Prevention; Exploring Social Norms to Address Sexual Violence in Southeast Asia

Darius Moore, MPH ‘26 and doctoral student, Health Behavior and Health Equity; The Cost of Progress: A Qualitative Exploration of the Mental Health Impacts of LGBTQ+ Activism in Kenya

Elinor Artsy Navon, MPH student, Environmental Health Sciences (Health Promotion and Policy); Strengthening Climate Shock Surveillance: Bridging Environmental Data and Health Outcomes in Bangladesh

MODERATOR

Lauren Ward, PhD ‘25, Environmental Health Sciences and postdoctoral fellow at the U-M Center for Global Health Equity; PFAS exposure & immune response in adolescents in Chitwan Valley, Nepal

Sponsored by the Christobel Kotelewala Weerasinghe Lecture Fund.