Author: Owen

With our eggs in a row, we set out to fully prepare for our meeting with the CMO. In order to get some momentum, we began drafting a document that outlines the roles and responsibilities of SicklED versus the roles and responsibilities of our implementing partner. If the meeting goes well and the CMO is […]

After our expeditions to Freetown and Kono, we had two crucial meetings that had the potential to shape the rest of fieldwork. Unbeknownst to us, there was to be a large medical conference right here in Makeni, featuring some of the most prominent figures in noncommunicable disease work for all of Sierra Leone. With some […]

With an extremely early start to the morning, four of us made our grand journey to Freetown. With two main meetings in place, one with the largest Sickle Cell advocacy group in Sierra Leone and the other with a representative of one of the most financed programs for healthcare, we were set to have one […]

The past few days we have been delving into articles, asking questions, and focusing our efforts on developing an end to end system that unifies advocacy groups, academic institutions, and health care clinics. As we have mentioned in previous blogs, our 5 point strategy focuses on policy, development of a continuing educational course for nurses […]

We had originally planned to meet with our contact from EKB, a local university. According to SHAFS, she was the medical advisor fortheir advocacy efforts and maintained certain connections to the Ministry of Health. However, with it nearing the end of the school year here in Sierra Leone, she was very busy grading and working […]

We started our day at World Hope this morning and awaited a meeting with the Holy Spirit Hospital. With some last minute preparations and thought, we gathered our belongings and piled into the car. This would be our first meeting with a hospital in Sierra Leone. We arrived at the hospital, where we were greeted […]