Recount of First Week at the National Institute of Health, Migration, and Poverty in Rome

Ciao tutti,
Tutto sono a posto qui! My job is awesome, and I’ve had the opportunity to learn about the way that the institute functions in order to help refugees at the reception centers in Lampedusa and here in Rome. There is a clinic here- open to all people, non-citizens as well, a biology lab, an epidemiology center, and a project management center. For the past couple of days I have been working at project management helping them translate a document recording their findings for their “Common Approach for Refugees and other migrant’s health” project that has been instituted all over Europe. The final report, which I helped write and correct in English, was submitted yesterday to the EU for review.
For the next 10 days I will be shadowing biologists studying immunology at the Institute working on understanding the causes of Pruritus and why many migrants arrive with these symptoms. Today I got to look at biopsies, taken from migrants at the clinic, through the microscope. The combination of sunlight, salt water, and long days of travel often takes a tole on the migrants’ epidermis.
Next, I will shadow doctors at the clinic and later, epidemiologists. I am lucky that this institute is so multifaceted, and I get to explore all of my interests. It has been challenging trying to understand what everyone is saying when their passionately explain their jobs in Italian, but I am learning. No one here really speaks English, which has really forced me to practice my Italian. I work full-time, from around 10am- around 5:30pm Monday through Friday.
This job is honestly extremely better than I had ever hoped and everyone that works here is extremely caring and humble. Also, the family I am living with (through airbnb) has been amazing. They insist on cooking me dinner every night and they have two kids: a son that is 18 and a daughter the same age as me! The daughter, Olivia, has taken me out and shown me her neighborhood (Trastevere), and we have become close. She is studying at the music conservatory in Rome and plays the cello. Also, the family speaks to me only in Italian 🙂
Anyways, it has been one week here so far! I hope to tell you more stories later!
A dopo,
Emilia

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