MS 2025, HSPH
WAPPP Intern, Cultural Bridge
Federal University of Carea, Fortaleza, Brazil
Flora Zhou (MS ‘25 HSPH) will intern at the Federal University of Carea in Fortaleza, Brazil. For this internship, Flora aims to bridge the evidence gap regarding perinatal depression and its consequent impact on child health outcomes, which is crucial for informing families, healthcare practitioners, and policymakers. Her main activities and responsibilities include participating in training with local researchers to understand the data collection process for the 6th wave of the Iracema-COVID cohort study, visiting implementation sites to assess the pressing demands and challenges in local maternal and child health programs, and performing data analysis to produce policy brief and deliverables for local policymakers and practitioners.