Researcher Fatma Saleh is on a mission: to prevent the aedes aegypti mosquito spreading viral diseases, such as dengue, chikungunya, and zika viruses. She did her PhD on mosquito-borne viral diseases in Zanzibar and how the health system can detect and deal with epidemics caused by these diseases. 

For more than a decade, the research capacity development programme ‘Building Stronger Universities’ has strengthened higher education institutions in Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, and Nepal. This podcast series zooms in on and explores the story, experiences and results of the partnership between Danish universities and the State University of Zanzibar.

• Episode 1: Building a stronger university (24 min)
• Episode 2: Fatma and the mosquitos (11:30 min)
• Episode 3: Biubwa and the food waste (09:30 min)
• Episode 4: Aziza and the plastic waste (06:30 min)
• Episode 5: Idrissa and the seagrass (10:00 min)
• Episode 6: Women in academia (11:30 min)

Host: Morten Mechlenborg Nørulf, University of Copenhagen’s School of Global Health

Editing technician: Christian Grimes Schmidt, University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Online and Blended Learning

‘Building Stronger Universities’ is produced by University of Copenhagen’s School of Global Health and Centre for Online and Blended Learning. The podcast is funded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.