Author: Owen

Our final true day in Sierra Leone had arrived in a flash. We knew we had to make this day count to the best of our ability. Early in the morning, our team traveled to the DHMT for the In Charge meeting that was to be held throughout the day. Thanks to the DMO, we […]

After a busy two weeks, the teams all took a day off of work to take a day trip to Freetown. Excited for the day ahead all the teams piled, bright and early, into the vans and started our journey to Freetown. The drive into Freetown was long but beautiful. As we drove into the […]

  The past few days have been leading up to today’s meeting with the DMO. To start the day, we organized our final thoughts and materials for the presentation. During the meeting, we presented the poster and flipbook to the DMO. He provided specific directions to tailor the poster to his preferences. Additionally, a member […]

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 […]