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#17 Joy, Ebola and CANUSA

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In this episode, our host Cat Vendl chats with PhD student Joy Flowers. Joy is the founding mother and current president of the very first North America-wide WDA student chapter, called CANUSA. Joy is in the first year of her PhD at Pennsylvania State University, US. In her PhD, she studies the impact of deforestation on Ebola virus spillover. Get ready for our chat on WDA student activities and Ebola spillovers. Do you want to get involved with CANUSA? Email Joy: [email protected]

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