Africa

Two of us in our department are going to attend the 23rd International Congress on Occupational Health due to be held in Cape Town, South Africa end of March. We, a graduate student Ngatu Nlandu, MD, and me, are both presenting research results on pneumoconiosis imaging. The day of presentation has been acturally not yet informed, and we also do not know whether we are presenting as an oral or a poster presentation or both. Well, that's life. We will both prepare powerpoint and a big sheet of poster.

Since his enrollment as PhD student, our department has got closer and closer to the African Continent. There have been a lot of correspondence with people there, we have also applied to many official and private grants for research project in Africa, and have done little investigation with the help from LIPS, a healthcare NGO that Ngatu has established in D. R. Congo. Also, we met Congolese medical doctors who stay in Japan and pursuing further educational oppotunities just like Ngatu. Hope our labo will give best support for them!