Episode 12 - Interview with Sandra Isano

In this episode our guest is Sandra Isano a Rwandan pharmacist, Lecturer, and Coordinator for Community Based Education in the Department of Community Health, and Social Medicine at the University of Global Health Equity with over 10 years of experience in the field. 

 

We talked about:

• Sandra’s background and the work she does now and where she works 
• Where Sandra’s journey in public health started, and what she wanted to be when she was younger
• How working as a community pharmacist got her interested in patients beyond the treatment and medication they were coming to seek 
• Her work as a fellow with Global Health Corps 
• Rwanda’s High School pathway and where people choose to specialize 
• Which one’s are the community pharmacies?
• How and why pharmacies serve as a first line of care and health service delivery 
• How capacity building at pharmacies can be an additional solution in provided primary care
• How pharmacy, GHC fellowship and now her current work as a lecturer doing community community research all inspire and motivate her interests
• What her current work at UGHE looks like and includes 
• Teaching, research and community service 
• Highlights of some of Sandra’s research projects and outcomes from them 
• Sandra’s PhD project, and what motivated her to study for a PhD a focus on teen mothers at refugee camps in Rwanda, and what questions and information she will be looking into 
• Sandra’s favorite thing about working in public health 
• How Sandra defines public health 
• Sandra’s least favorite thing about working in public health 
• Words of advice to those starting out in the public health field and their careers
• Love as a public health intervention and the social ecological model! 
• https://ghcorps.org/ -Global Health Corps website
• https://ughe.org/ -University of Global Health Equity website
• https://ur.ac.rw/- University of Rwanda website