HOPKINS, ERNESTINE

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Video

Date

2006-07-14

Description

Ernestine Hopkins, wife of Don Hopkins, who was the Medical Epidemiologist for the Smallpox Eradication Program in Sierra Leone. Ernie talks of traveling with her husband to the field during the week, adjusting to life in Sierra Leone, meeting people with smallpox in the villages, and the ways in which the experience has impacted her life.

Citation

Chillag, Kata (Interviewer); CDC; Anthropologist and Hopkins, Ernestine (Interviewee); CDC; Wife of Medical Epidemologist, “HOPKINS, ERNESTINE,” The Global Health Chronicles, accessed November 8, 2024, https://globalhealthchronicles.org/items/show/3507.