October 24, 2019
Q&A with Fulbright Scholar Anna Ralph
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As part of the national Fulbright Scholar Program, K-State's Oz to Oz FulbrightScholarsSeminarbrings senior 1xbet sports betting scholars to campus to build and developinternationalpartnerships and friendships.Free and open to the public,Anna Ralphwill present Kansas State university 1xbet online casino as part of the Oz to Oz Fulbright Scholars Seminar at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, in the Davis Theater at the Berney Family Welcome Center.
ThisQ&Awith Ralph gives the university communityan opportunity to learn more about the scholar speaker and reinforces the importance ofmutual understanding and educationof diverseresearchtopics.
What is yourname,titleand institution?
Anna Ralph, director of Global and Tropical Health at Menzies School of Health 1xbet sports betting in Darwin, Australia, and practicing medical specialist in general medicine and infectious diseases at Royal Darwin Hospital.
What is your field ofstudy?
I'm an infectious diseases physician and I work in a hospital as a clinician looking after patients with various communicable diseases. I have three 1xbet sports betting areas: Tuberculosis, Acute rheumatic fever, and 1xbet sports betting into improving intercultural communication between doctors and other health care providers and aboriginal patients.
I live and work in northern tropical Australia where we have some really interesting endemic bacterial pathogens and other infections that you don't see in other parts of Australia and we have a large indigenous population in Northern Australia. It's a really great place to work as an infectious diseases physician and a great place to do 1xbet sports betting that can have a genuine clinical impact.
How is the Fulbright scholarship helping you increase knowledge of thisarea?
My main goal in doing this Fulbright scholarship has been to learn more about implementation 1xbet sports betting approaches. Implementation 1xbet sports betting in clinical medicine is a somewhat new area and can also be a bit nebulous in people's minds. The group I have been working with at the University of California, San Francisco are real experts in implementation 1xbet sports betting , they apply it to their TB field site in Uganda where they are doing TB 1xbet sports betting . I was able to work with this group to look at their 1xbet sports betting methodologies and learn how I can use those approaches in my three 1xbet sports betting areas. It has been a really fruitful and helpful time for me to apply those methods to my grant writing.
What drives yourinterestinyourresearch?
I think I've always been really interested in the health of disadvantaged populations. TB and rheumatic fever tend to be diseases that have been really well dealt with in high-income settings and we sort of see them as diseases of the past. But they are still real problems in low resource settings or in communities that are affected by poverty and the northern Australia aboriginal population certainly experiences these diseases at higher rates than the rest of Australia so I just have a real passion about working with more impoverished populations on controlling communicable diseases.
Why did you accept the invitation to visit 1xbet sports betting ?
I was really intrigued by theOz to Ozprogram and the huge amount of enthusiasm expressed by the researchers and the program managers here at K-State. My 1xbet sports betting is really quite different from the 1xbet sports betting that goes on here, but the fact that I was invited and embraced really displays this really interesting open-mindedness and willingness to collaborate that I think is sort of rare at some institutes. I also know that no matter how different your 1xbet sports betting fields might be from whoever you are having a conversation with, you'll always learn something and get something out of every conversation whether it's the way you might run your team differently or a new idea that just might not have come up had you been not having a conversation with someone so far outside of your field. I've never been to Kansas before so that's really fascinating and I've also learned that there are some real parallels between Kansas and Darwin.
Read a Q&A with visitingFulbright ScholarVinita Godinhoin Friday's issue.