Every wonder what global health aid workers do to improve life in some really downtrodden places that have suffered from war and famine and natural disasters?
Baltimore photographer David Snyder spent 57 days on assignment for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation. About 75 of his 6,800 pictures from Kenya, Brazil, Peru, Haiti, India and Tanzania, as well as field notes, will go on display beginning this Saturday at the CDC's Global Health Odyssey Museum.
Among the pictures are images of "Mama Sprinkles," who distributes micronutrient packets to families in Kenya's Nyanza Province, and CDC scientists who conducted disease surveillance after the earthquake in Haiti.
"Over the past year, I have seen CDC and other public health professionals in action and I have been struck by the commitment and dedication of these individuals who are creating a safer, healthier world for all of us," said Snyder in a statement. "I spent hours in the field interacting with people who benefit from public health programs – from kids on a playground in Tennessee to tuberculosis patients in Lima, Peru."
The pictures are an effort to show the importance of such international aid work, according to the CDC Foundation.
The photo exhibit runs through Jan. 14. For more information and to see the photos, go to infocus.cdcfoundation.org.
The CDC Foundation was created by Congress to help the CDC form partnership with companies and other foundations to benefit public health programs around the country and world.
Photo of men collecting clean drinking water from a foundation program in India courtesy of the CDC Foundation