46 posts
By Guest Author
12 November 2018
What are the ethical considerations around volunteer infection? Researchers, Maureen Njue and Dorcas Kamuya, discuss their research presenting one of the first studies of a controlled human malaria infection study in an LMIC, looking at the ethical issues of infecting healthy volunteers. Deliberate infection Controlled Human Malaria Infection (CHMI) studies involve the deliberate infection of healthy […]
By Guest Author
02 October 2018
A Q&A with Suzannah Biernoff about her research on the cultural pre-history of face transplants. This is a fascinating piece of research, why did you explore the cultural pre-history of face transplants? A lot of my research over the past decade has dealt with the aesthetics and cultural meanings of disfigurement, including responses to facial […]
By Guest Author
04 April 2018
Paul Dalgarno, an author on a Research Article published in Wellcome Open Research, talks about the potential and effectiveness for citizen science through a national imaging initiative in Scotland, the EnLightenment project.
By Guest Author
13 March 2018
Renly Lim and Phaik Yeong Cheah discuss their research article on how drama can be used as a community engagement strategy to raise awareness about malaria.
By Guest Author
31 January 2018
Kathryn Maitland, an author of a study protocol published on Wellcome Open Research, talks about gastroenteritis and the importance of the Phase II GASTRO trial to monitor children’s responses to rehydration therapy.
By Guest Author
06 December 2017
Charles Mbogo talks about the largest database of malaria mosquito carriers and its role for future control and malaria elimination programmes in Africa. This inventory was recently published and peer reviewed on Wellcome Open Research as a research article. Inventories entailing distributions of Anopheles mosquitoes go back to the turn of the last century. These […]
By Guest Author
14 November 2017
Nayreen Daruwalla and David Osrin discuss their efforts to change gender norms in order to prevent violence against girls and women in India.
By Guest Author
06 October 2017
Elizabeth Murchison and Máire Ní Leathlobhair, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, discuss the research taking place at the Marine Mammal Center and their work as part of the Transmissible Cancer Group, based at the University of Cambridge, studying a highly prevalent cancer in California sea lions.