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Downs fellowship brings student to a home she never knew
In the summer of 2013, the same day Adesuwa Ighodaro stepped off the plane into the dry heat of Nigeria, a teachers' strike began at the University College Hospital of Ibadan. Ighodaro had traveled to Ibadan, a city in southwestern Nigeria, on a Downs Fellowship to assess the attitudes of the university’s medical students and primary care physicians toward people with mental illness. But as the strike dragged on, her subject pool was shrinking.
Source: Yale Medicine Magazine