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Uma Devi Mishra, health promoter, was born in Bhutan and spent 17 years in a refugee camp in Jhapa, Nepal. While in Nepal, she earned a health training certificate from Madan Memorial Hospital. She taught all subjects at a boarding school and first grade at a boarding school in Kathmandu. She and her family were resettled in the United States in 2008, and Uma was the second person from Bhutan to be resettled in Chicago. Uma worked briefly as a room attendant at the Palmer House Hilton before being hired by Heartland Health Outreach (HHO) November 2008 as the Bhutanese Health Promoter. In the time she has worked at HHO, Uma has become a trusted source for information and education in her community and for the resettlement agencies. Ms. Devi Mishra reads, writes, and speaks Nepali, Dzongkha, and English.
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