Episode 6: Empowering women & children in the Amazon with Lisa Labita Woodson

In this episode of Talking Global Health with Fogarty, Dr. Lisa Labita Woodson, a researcher from the University of Arizona, focused on sexual and reproductive health for the Mamás del Río Project, began her career in Global Health following a tragic event during a Peace Corps assignment in Nepal. Her newfound passion led her to Nepal, Senegal, Thailand, and Peru where she completed her Fulbright Fogarty Fellowship, studying the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on school dropout rates and adolescent pregnancy in the Peruvian Amazon. -- Featuring: Lisa Labita Woodson, PhD, MPH Editor-In-Chief of Beyond Global Health Principal Investigator in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research at Mamás del Río -- Learn more about Dr. Lisa Labita Woodson in Fogarty's Global Health Matters newsletter. https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHe...