Mosquitoes are often described as the most dangerous animals on earth, because the diseases they transmit, including malaria, dengue and Zika, cause more than 1 million deaths annually. But strategies for mitigating these threats remain far from adequate. Consider malaria, which, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), infected over 200 million people in 2017, …
As I read “More talk than action,” a new study published in the Lancet on how women and ethnic minorities are being held back in schools of public health, I relived the personal experiences that led me to leave academia. The study, conducted by 10 female researchers, was an investigation into gender- and ethnicity-related differences in …
The Ebola epidemic sweeping through West Africa is causing understandable panic in local communities and international concern about the future spread of this killer virus. Yet there’s another disease which has been more deadly this year. One that nearly cost me my medical career, and which – unlike Ebola – can be easily prevented. "This …
A dear friend asked me to attend a fundraiser for Amani Global Works. I go to many fundraisers so I was expecting to find another meaningful cause that would prompt me to write a dutiful check, but would not particularly resonate with me. I was wrong. Once I spoke with founders Dr. Jacques Sebisaho and …