Biography

Pharmacist by profession with vast experience in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, chronic medicine management, HIV management, and evaluation of treatment guidelines. Strong interest in public health in which multidisciplinary teams work together to focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases and health promotion.

Discipline/s:

Pharmacy, Health promotion

Research description

Research title: Adapting to a new normal: understanding knowledge, attitudes, and practices in response to the COVID pandemic.

Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) is an infectious zoonotic disease that has resulted in regulations and policies being implemented to reduce disease transmission. The measures taken to reduce the transmission are affected greatly by people’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding COVID-19 and the environment.

This research aims to understand the actions taken by young adults in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by determining their knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAPs) in response to the pandemic and investigating the factors that could be associated with poor adherence to the current regulations. Understanding the KAPs that young adults have on COVID-19, and the environment can help provide information that can allow for innovative and public health-centered strategies that could promote a multi-disciplinary response to the COVID-19 pandemic and future outbreaks. These strategies will not only be centered on human health but also animal and environmental health. Human health is interdependent on animal health and knowing what KAPs that young adults have regarding animal and environmental health could be the key to reducing the transmission of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19  and providing suggestions to prevent and manage future pandemics. Young adults are the future leaders of the world, the current and future custodians and protectors of the environment and animals.

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