Dr. Jeremiah Gene Johnson
2023 HonoreeArts & Sciences
On the occasion of Dr. Jeremiah Gene Johnson's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
Underbelly: Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health
Underbelly: Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health Rachel Hall-Clifford Medicine & Health Sciences
Why I Chose This Book

The burden of diarrheal diseases has largely been forgotten by high-resource societies, but more than half of the world's population still suffers from these due to a lack of infrastructure. Unfortunately, these diseases tend to impact the most vulnerable in low-resource regions, including children and the elderly. Despite interest from some agencies in addressing this problem, the solutions do not always recognize the cultural or societal nuances of those areas, so their impacts are often limited. As the infectious disease and global health fields move forward in addressing this issue, it is important that we finally consider solutions from the perspective of these communities we are trying to help. This book is one of the first to acknowledge the limitations of those past efforts and outlines some considerations that must be taken if the global community truly wants to assist these communities in improving their quality of life.

Underbelly: Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health