Jason first traveled to Mfangano Island to write his master's dissertation "Hunger and HIV: Benefits of the Medicalization of Nutrition among Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy" in March and April 2009. He returned the summer of 2010 to help lead an interdisciplinary global health frameworks team from UCSF and UC Berkeley.

He studied Health and Societies and the Biological Basis of Behavior at the University of Pennsylvania as an undergrad, Medical Anthropology at the University of Oxford as a post-graduate, and is currently a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco.

Jason helps to coordinate nutrition research for OHR.

"Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Just keep swimming." - Dory, Finding Nemo

 To check out Jason's research articles, download the attachments at the bottom of this page!