Susan is a recent MPH graduate, with 20 years of professional experience as a registered nurse, and social worker.

In the past she has trained a research team in Burundi, East Africa. With the support of an interpreter, she recruited 20 locals and taught them the research protocol she developed and the IRB guidelines.

Susan has strong demonstrated experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation, research, program planning, and survey design.

With the focus on HIV and TB for several decades, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have not been addressed in a significant way, despite being a growing public health concern.

With CMMB, Susan has been teaching in our Mutomo Health Sciences School to both students and the community some life support skills.

During the pandemic she also supported remotely on the development of our evaluations survey and supported in the development of nursing course outlines for remote nursing education, in addition to developing the content for the Vital health statistics for Mutomo Mission Hospital.

– Deb

Susan’s story:

I’ll be starting my second round of teaching CPR and First Aid tomorrow afternoon. There’s a real shortage of resources/equipment but I make do.

I had my students come to my house with a back porch and table and do some of the skills because it gets so hot in the classroom when I teach. I gave them juice and that’s when we really bonded as a class. It was fun and they could relax. Sr. Mary told me I was spoiling them!

I kept running inside the house to grab anything I could think of to use for splints, slings etc. My host let me rip up an old sheet so that I could make rolled bandages and slings. I am glad they saw me do that because they need to be resourceful themselves if they are ever the first responders to accidents in the community. I even used a mop stick to show them how to splint a broken leg.

What I feel most disappointed about is that they don’t have AED’s here. Learning CPR is important, and it keeps the circulation going until the AED comes, which restarts the heart.

I found myself teaching the old method of using a pre-cordial thump on the chest for unwitnessed unresponsive victims. It’s better than nothing.

Susan is a recent MPH graduate, with 20 years of professional experience as a registered nurse, and social worker.

In the past she has trained a research team in Burundi, East Africa. With the support of an interpreter, she recruited 20 locals and taught them the research protocol she developed and the IRB guidelines.

Susan has strong demonstrated experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation, research, program planning, and survey design.

With the focus on HIV and TB for several decades, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have not been addressed in a significant way, despite being a growing public health concern.

With CMMB, Susan has been teaching in our Mutomo Health Sciences School to both students and the community some life support skills.

During the pandemic she also supported remotely on the development of our evaluations survey and supported in the development of nursing course outlines for remote nursing education, in addition to developing the content for the Vital health statistics for Mutomo Mission Hospital.

– Deb

Susan’s story:

I’ll be starting my second round of teaching CPR and First Aid tomorrow afternoon. There’s a real shortage of resources/equipment but I make do.

I had my students come to my house with a back porch and table and do some of the skills because it gets so hot in the classroom when I teach. I gave them juice and that’s when we really bonded as a class. It was fun and they could relax. Sr. Mary told me I was spoiling them!

I kept running inside the house to grab anything I could think of to use for splints, slings etc. My host let me rip up an old sheet so that I could make rolled bandages and slings. I am glad they saw me do that because they need to be resourceful themselves if they are ever the first responders to accidents in the community. I even used a mop stick to show them how to splint a broken leg.

What I feel most disappointed about is that they don’t have AED’s here. Learning CPR is important, and it keeps the circulation going until the AED comes, which restarts the heart.

I found myself teaching the old method of using a pre-cordial thump on the chest for unwitnessed unresponsive victims. It’s better than nothing.