Infectious Diseases/Pandemics

HIV is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, with 1.3 million people contracting HIV every year and 629,000 people dying of the disease. HIV is both preventable and treatable, and governments and nonprofits have taken significant...

This project focuses on the problem of HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Mexico. Although HIV prevalence in Mexico is relatively low for a developing country at 0.3%, the prevalence among MSM is 17%, disproportionately higher than...

Since the invention of antibiotics a little over a century ago, bacteria-killing drugs have become one of the most important tools in healthcare. Infections that were once death sentences are now able to be cured with just a few doses. However, the...

When antibiotics are administered, though most of the disease-causing bacteria dies, a few drug-resistant bacteria remain alive. They are then able to grow and take over because of the extra space. With their body now being resistant to antibiotics...

Artist Imani Fonfield (2022) Caption As of April 2022, there have been approximately 984,000 deaths in the United States due to COVID-19; underneath this stark statistic, almost 1 out of every 450 children under the age of 18 in the United States lost a...

The purpose of this screenplay was to bring readers into the perspective of a working-class family in West Virginia in the age of coronavirus. I wrote from this perspective not because I believe it is the only perspective that needs to be written about...

This poster series provides crucial information on protecting oneself during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as messages of solidarity to Americans of Latinx origin as well as immigrants. I chose to write all my posters in Spanish and, in two of my...

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, yet there is still so much that is unknown about the disease. Untreated Lyme disease can lead to a variety of physiological and neurological effects, but it can present very...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, America was facing a severe shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), such as masks, gowns, and gloves, due to governmental unpreparedness and supply chain issues. The shortage especially impacted health care workers...