1978: JAMES HERRINGTON served in SENEGAL in NIORO DU RIP beginning in 1978



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer JAMES HERRINGTON can be contacted at JE_HERRaMSNdCOM

Country of Service: SENEGAL

Training Group: HEALTH

Cities you served in: NIORO DU RIP

Arrival Year: 1978

Departure Year: 1980

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

MPH: UNC/Chapel Hill School of Public Health; PhD: Colo State Univ in Environmental Health Sciences; with Centers for Disease Control for 16 yrs; Currently Director, Div of International Relations, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health; wife Carolyn McCrossin, PCV Senegal 1980, died in 1993.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Excellent experience worth every mosquito bite, diarrheal episode, days of being homesick.

Originally posted: March 30, 2006

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