Edward Coker (Glenmore Medical Online Postgraduate Scholarship)
Contact details
- Laboratory: +220 3862782
- Email: E.G.Coker@sms.ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM
Atlantic Boulevard - City
- Fajara
- Post code
- P. O. Box 273, Banjul The Gambia
Background
I was born and raised in the Gambia, the smallest country in main land Africa. Growing up, I realised most times a class mate was absent from school was because he or she was affected by malaria. I always wondered why the health care system did not get rid of common mosquito breeding sites across the country such as clogged gutters and stagnant water puddles. I thought this was the first step to eradicating malaria and frequently talked my friends into playing a game of filling water puddles with sand.
Due to my interest in health care, after high school I decided to gain laboratory experience at a small private clinic and then volunteered at the Gambia National public health laboratories. My interest in improving health care peaked when I worked for the first tuberculosis (TB) nationwide prevalence survey in The Gambia in 2012. I realised how much of a burden tuberculosis was yet many Gambians are still unaware of this. Since then, I developed a drive to contribute to the fight against TB and continue to work as a biomedical scientist for TB research projects at Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
CV
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Qualifications
Bachelor of Science with first class Honours in Biomedical Science