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Jill Seaman

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Jill Seaman is an American doctor working with Medicins Sans Frontieres. She is a native of Moscow, Idaho.

Early in her career, she worked as a public health care provider to the Yup'ik Native American tribe of Alaska. Her most notable work was eight years in the Sudan working against an epidemic of visceral leishmaniasis, between 1989 and 1997. Since that time she has been an advocate for increased aid and research for this and other parasitic diseases.