Katherine J. Wu

Katherine J. Wu is a Ph.D. candidate studying tuberculosis at Harvard University. She graduated from Stanford University with master's and bachelor's degrees in biology.

A nurse, Mamadou Kone, gives medicine for river blindness, caused by a parasitic worm and spread by the bite of an infected blackfly, on September 27th, 2008.
Social Justice

The Diseases We Ignore

Neglected tropical diseases continue to inflict pain and suffering on large portions of the world's population despite the availability of inexpensive cures in the West.