The next phase of the response must not be about deploying more people into communities simply to deliver interventions.
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Here’s how we design a fairer pathology system, fit for the 21st century, with no out-of-pocket costs or the public.
Time and information is of the essence when tackling infectious diseases across countries and continents.
Automation may not reduce our workloads as much as we’d hoped.
Guidelines and regulations weigh the medical and health benefits of animal research with researchers’ ability to ensure humane care of their subjects from start to finish.
Molecular research is expensive, but worth it because of the burden of disease that it could relieve.
Countries must be encouraged to distribute essential healthcare provision - like diagnosis - to where people most need them and where they can be accessed more easily.
Many university teaching labs are empty as students have been moved off campus during the pandemic. There are other ways to put theory into practice, at home and online.
To truly understand their discipline, students need to interact with laboratory equipment. They must both fail and succeed at running experiments.
Considerable effort has gone into improving laboratory services in many African countries. But the quality of tests is questionable.
A new centre in South Africa will work to significantly reduce emerging HIV and TB co-infections.
In many parts of the continent medical laboratories lack resources and expertise and can’t keep up with diagnostic demands, so proper diagnosis and treatment of health conditions is delayed.
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Associate Professor Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Clinical Laboratories, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Director of the Africa Centre for Population Health and Professor of Virology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Research fellow in science and technology studies/bioethics, University of Oxford
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer in Molecular Pathology and Microbial Genetics, University of Nigeria
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health
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Program Lead for Pathogen Genomics at the Africa CDC
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Clinical Veterinarian, Emory National Primate Research Center, Emory University
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Senior Lecturer, Physics, La Trobe University
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Distinguished Professor of Physics, La Trobe University
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Associate professor in innovation management and policy, SKEMA Business School and Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester
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Senior Research Fellow in Medicine, University of St Andrews
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Director South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology