Last week, I found myself apologizing for a part of me that I can't change. I find it interesting that as solid and confident as we can feel in our identity - how we view ourselves, how all of our pieces fit together in a positive way - at the end of the day, our r...

Hello! It has been some time since my last post and that has been because I have been working on this post for literal months. This draft has been open on my computer and these words bouncing around my brain since the first day of our Medical Anthropology & Public Heal...

You may have noticed the frequency with which I share things on social media has increased quite a bit over the past few months. Beginning with the occasional “I try not to share political or controversial posts” to including my own angry tirades. I have found that it’...

Let's talk about pathways.

And don't worry, I'll try to steer this away from the typical "Sara failed (again) and now needs to justify why that's okay on a public forum with a punny name" post.

Nah, we're going to talk about infectious disease emergence.

And there may or...

There's this concept in risk analysis called "the Swiss cheese model" that explains accidents happen when a series of events line up perfectly, like the holes in this series of Swiss cheese slices--

When each of these conditions is met, when each of these chance occurre...

This post has been on the tip of my tongue since our first lecture in the Foundations of One Health module over two weeks ago. As promised, I want to move away from recounting the mundane tales of my life and use this as a forum to share some of the cool things I am le...