The professors knew you. Assignments were not graded by graduate students. I didn't care for the cold, however, forget that. Today, Beyene squeezes teaching at UC-San Francisco, the one member of the California university system dedicated entirely to medical and health studies, into a heavy load of research. In addition to the breast cancer study, she's also investigating how well African immigrants in Los Angeles understand the risks of HIV infections through a grant from the California Universitywide AIDS Research Program.
People are afraid of the stigma.
A single two-hour interview, for example, can result in between 30 and 40 pages of transcripts. We're out to educate the community in a way that penetrates the cultural barriers.