Amanda Ferber, a fourth-year undergraduate double majoring in computer science and public health, is using her Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award and Vredenburg Travel Fund to promote cervical cancer awareness in rural India. This summer, she is studying barriers preventing women in Mysore from accessing free HPV screenings, a key detection method for cervical cancer.

Working with mentors from Johns Hopkins and the University of Arizona, Ferber aims to understand these obstacles through interviews, which will help train a machine translation model to increase awareness and education in the local language, Kannada. Ferber’s ultimate goal is to enhance public health interventions, particularly in improving access to clean water globally.

Check out the full article by Jaimie Patterson, “Expanding access: Amanda Ferber uses computer science to advance women’s health” by here.