Event Description
After his bench lab research on brain injury,
Goro Yamada, PhD, MHS, MMS
Senior Scientist, Urban Health Collaborative,
Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health,
became a
science and math teacher at a secondary school in rural Ghana, where he caught
malaria six times.
During his stay, he considered disease control in low- and
middle-income countries as his next priority. Goro obtained a master’s degree
from Johns Hopkins University, then worked for a clinical trial in Zimbabwe, an
initiative to integrate the country’s health information systems at the World
Health Organization (WHO), and technical assistance in disease surveillance and
project formulations for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
After 13 years of working in Africa and Latin America, Goro earned a Ph.D.
degree in global disease epidemiology and control and a master’s degree in
biostatistics from his obesity research at Johns Hopkins University. After
graduation, he worked at data centers for cohort studies and trials at the epidemiology
department, where he co-instructed the fourth course of a one-year
biostatistics sequence for graduate students. Goro currently oversees data
management and analysis for a project about urban health in Latin America at
Drexel University. He also teaches two biostatistics courses, one for
undergraduates and the other for online MPH students. |
