Huge congratulations to Tebogo (Tebby) Leepile, PhD candidate (Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems) who won first place in UBC Vancouver’s 3 Minute Thesis Competition yesterday. Next up, Tebby will represent the university in the Western Regional Competitions in May. Her supervisors are Eduardo Jovel and Crystal Karakochuk, and her research talk was on the prevalence of anemia among San women and young children in rural Botswana. She also recently won first place in the 2021 Global Health Conference at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute for her oral presentation addressing the same topic.

 

Bravo Tebby!