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MrsMakiko Kitamura

  • World Health Organization, TDR (the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases), Geneva, Switzerland

BIO

Currently working as a communications officer at TDR, previously supporting WHO’s Department of Information, Evidence and Research. That followed a decade working as a journalist with Bloomberg News and Agence France-Presse (AFP) in London, Tokyo, New York and Dakar. With a background in economics and international studies, she is happy to apply her journalistic skills to tell the many exciting stories of the vast TDR community.

DEGREES

  • B.A., Economics and International Studies
    Yale University, New Haven, United States
  • Master of Science in Journalism (M.S.J.)
    Northwestern University, Evanston, United States

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Japanese
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • French
    Can read, write, speak and understand

WHO REGION

  • WHO Region of the Americas

COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY

  • United States of America (the)