Janetrix Hellen Amuguni

Empowering Women for Better Lives for People and Animals

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Cummings School researchers study how increasing women’s access to livestock vaccines can improve animal and human health and well-being

A small-scale chicken farmer tending to her chickens, after participating in a survey exercise in Machakos County, Kenya. Here she is explaining to the interviewer some of the problems facing poultry keepers.

Researchers to study how gender and sex impact coronavirus mortality

Monday, June 22nd, 2020

Associate professor Hellen Amuguni spoke with WCVB Boston on planned research with Tufts Medical Center into how gender and sex impact COVID-19 outcomes and mortality

Hellen Amuguni, Associate Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, poses for a portrait

Why Is There a COVID-19 Gender Gap?

Monday, June 15th, 2020

Tufts researchers to study how sex and gender affect individuals’ risk of worse outcomes from COVID-19

Sex and Gender Differences Matter

Thursday, May 14th, 2020

Associate professor Janetrix Hellen Amuguni explains why it’s important to learn how COVID-19 and stay-at-home orders are affecting men and women differently.

Tufts Institute of the Environment Marks Its Twentieth Anniversary

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

A program celebrating two decades of activism includes awards to Janetrix Hellen Amuguni and Jennifer Baldwin and a talk by U.S. Senator Edward Markey

Making a Difference Around the Globe

Friday, June 1st, 2018

Tufts trains students to advance animal, human, and environmental health wherever they’re needed.

The Ideal One Health Trifecta: Animal Health, Human Health and Social Science

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

With expertise spanning animal health, human health and infectious disease, international community development and gender issues, Dr. Hellen Amuguni is a true One Health scientist.

The Origins of University of Global Health Equity

Thursday, October 27th, 2016

In August 2013, Patricia Campbell, executive vice president of Tufts University, and John Morgan, D.D.S., an associate professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, traveled to Kigali, Rwanda to participate in an Oral Health… Read More