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Repon Chowdhury has a particular perspective on occupational exposure to the sun. Chairperson of Labour at Informal Economy--a Bangladeshi, membership-based nongovernmental organization that represents street vendors, waste pickers, agricultural workers [...]

A prominent researcher in the field of nutrition and public health, Dr Carlos Augusto Monteiro is best known for his work on the epidemiology of obesity, and the classification of [...]

For Mahreen Matto, an urban water and sanitation management expert who works at the National Institute of Urban Affairs in Delhi, India's urban sanitation problem, for all its complexity, can [...]

Q: You grew up in a small rural village in Kenya, the child of farmers. How did that upbringing inform your world view and career choices? A: It made me [...]

Q: You grew up on an island in the Republic of Cabo Verde. To what extent was sport a part of your upbringing? A: I grew up in a small [...]

Attention is beginning to focus on the need for vaccines to tackle antimicrobial resistant pathogens. Gary Humphreys reports. Until fairly recently, debates about how to tackle the looming threat of [...]

Angela Huddleston can see it coming. 'We're going to start feeling the funding crunch from around the second half of 2024,' she says. 'I'm genuinely terrified of what it's going [...]

Derrick Sim talks to Gary Humphreys about the funding lessons learned in the establishment and running of COVAX, and what is required to prepare for the next pandemic. Q: You [...]

Q: How did you to come focus on audiology so early? A: Here in South Africa, training in audiology begins at the undergraduate degree level, so you're essentially required to [...]

Zilire Luka was asleep in bed when Cyclone Gombe hit the Malawi capital, Lilongwe. 'It was raining hard, but it was the phone that woke me up' says the executive [...]

Q: You studied medicine at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut. At what point did you decide to specialize in psychiatry? A: When I started to work with patients in [...]

Hugh Shim knows what failure looks like. It goes floating past his office every day in the form of the plastic bottles, food containers and shopping bags that end up [...]

Q: The first COVID-19 cases arrived in Ghana on 12 March 2020, several weeks after the initial reports from China. How ready were you to deal with them at the [...]

Q: As a young post-doctoral researcher, you were invited by the Canadian government to establish a national reference laboratory for chlamydia. How did your career get off to such an [...]

On the face of it, this year's roll-out of mosquito nets treated with the insecticides chlorfenapyr and alphacypermethrin is cause for serious celebration, and no-one is happier about it than [...]

When Luciano Moreira's daughter came down with a fever in January of 2017, Moreira was more than concerned. 'She was prostrate with a fever and had joint pain, and we'd [...]

Q: Despite increasing concern about antibiotic resistance, very few new antibiotics are emerging from the R&D pipeline. What is holding back their development? A: Well first, it's probably worth stating [...]

Q: You are best known for your work on cholera. Has that always been your principal focus? A: Living in the Ganges Delta and growing up in a country which [...]

Q: You are best known for your work on invasive fungal pathogens. Could you start by explaining what is meant by that term? A: It's used to describe infections other [...]

Anthony Fauci talks to Gary Humphreys about his achievements at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), his experiences advising seven consecutive United States presidents, and the challenges [...]

Q: How did the idea of setting up a sanctuary for the survivors of gender-based violence come to you? A: It was when I was practising the law. I served [...]

A multi-agency initiative encouraging farmers to switch from tobacco cultivation to healthier and more ecologically sustainable crops is getting attention in Kenya. Gary Humphreys reports. Kevin Genga remembers the countryside [...]

The monkeypox epidemic is highlighting the risks entailed in dismissing an emerging disease as someone else's problem. Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan and Gary Humphreys report. For Dr Dimie Ogoina, the outbreak [...]

Q: How did you become a virologist? A: Professor Victor Anomah Ngu, Cameroon's former public health minister, set me on that path. I had just graduated from university and was [...]

Since someone stole her motorcycle, Mammie Moyo has been doing a lot of walking. A senior health surveillance assistant at the Enukweni Health Centre in Mzimba, Northern Malawi, Moyo distributes [...]

Q: You studied English Literature at St Stephen's College in Delhi. How did you go from there to working on WASH? A: I actually wanted to be a professional tennis [...]

Q: What drew you to the profession of nursing? A: Initially, it was something that I thought would help my family. When I was a kid, whenever we took a [...]

Q: How did you come to your focus on parasitology? A: I grew up in rural Cameroon and had some fairly formative encounters with parasites early on. I had regular [...]

It is the young motorcyclist with the dreadlocks that Dilia Puerto remembers. 'It happened in the afternoon rush hour' she says. 'He came racing down the street, and a car [...]

An interview with Tanzanian researcher Julie Makani is presented. Among the issues she discussed include her thoughts on the estimated 80% of worldwide cases of sickle cell disease that occur in the African region despite advances in research and treatment, how hydroxyurea is used as a sickle cell disease treatment, and the factors that drives stigmatization in relation to the disease.

The article explores the significant impact on outcomes that the Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course, part of a package addressing emergency care known as the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Care Toolkit, being adapted for use across a wide range of countries. Cited are indications that the toolkit is associated with significantly reduced mortality and morbidity in medical and trauma emergencies, and how the toolkit is being used for different purposes.

Q: You were raised as a refugee in Uganda. How did your early experiences influence your life and career? A: I was born in Rwanda to parents who were displaced [...]

Q: You started out working in developmental biology. How did you become interested in the field of ethics and governance of biomedicine? A: As a student, I always had a [...]

Passengers at the Roadport bus terminal in central Harare, Zimbabwe are used to showing their vaccination certification cards before they get on the bus. 'The cards were introduced in the [...]