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Silk : a history in three metamorphoses
\"In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sally Hargreaves: co-producing solutions for migrant health
[...]Professor of Clinical Public Health and Section Head for Global Health at the Institute for Infection and Immunity, City St George's University of London, UK, Hargreaves leads the Migrant Health Research Group, with a research focus on strengthening life-course immunisation, health promotion, and screening in migrant populations globally. “Working with refugees and other marginalised populations, contributing to humanitarian aid opened my eyes to the various aspects of global health”, Hargreaves recalls, “and how to do research in challenging contexts with hard-to-reach groups.” The team of clinicians and social scientists “support global health research in predominantly Africa and more recently Malaysia, particularly focused on intervention development to improve access to health care and promote better health outcomes in migrant populations”.
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Tumani Corrah: cultivating health research capacity in Africa
Professor Sir Tumani Corrah is the Emeritus Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and founder and Co-President of the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF), which has offices in the UK and The Gambia. Corrah followed that with arrangements for an international postgraduate and postdoctoral programme for Gambian researchers through fellowships from the MRC, opening “the doors even wider for Africans from countries far and near to join the unit”, he says, “and quite a significant number of them obtained their PhDs with us and are now making significant contributions in global health”. After stepping down as Director of the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, Corrah founded AREF in 2015 to strengthen health research capacity in Africa, focusing on the early postdoctoral niche and providing scientists with technical and leadership skills and training.
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Tom Shakespeare: advocating for people with disabilities
[...]we're all somewhere along that line.” Tom began his research after an undergraduate degree and PhD in social and political science at the University of Cambridge, UK, which highlighted this continuum, and examined how the “dichotomy between non-disabled and disabled” is socially defined. In his experience, the social stigmas attached to people with physical or mental health conditions require anti-stigma campaigns, for example to move towards acceptance of people with mental illness.
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Emily Mendenhall: applying anthropological thinking to medicine
Mendenhall, who is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and was a founding Editor-in-Chief of Social Science & Medicine-Mental Health until early 2025, is “particularly interested in the interplay between depression and diabetes”. After a degree in interdisciplinary studies from Davidson College and a master's degree in global public health from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, she took a job at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and became “interested in how low-income people navigate diabetes in a society where healthcare is hard to access”. Next, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she continued to collaborate for more than a decade.
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Rachael Burke: integrating equitable HIV and TB research and care
According to Peter MacPherson, Professor of Global Public Health, Head of Public Health at the University of Glasgow, UK, and one of Burke's PhD supervisors, “her commitment to equitable partnerships and translating evidence into practice...through rigorous epidemiological methods, innovative trial design, and deep engagement with affected communities”, has resulted in meaningful impact that “has transformed our understanding of early HIV mortality and community-based TB screening”. After returning to Belfast, she continued her research at Queen's University, before moving to a role at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at University College London Hospital. In Malawi, the CASTLE trial assessed whether adding digital chest X-rays and computer assisted diagnostics and a new urine test to screen for tuberculosis among people with advanced HIV disease admitted to hospital had substantial impacts on inpatient tuberculosis diagnosis and mortality.
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Aliasgar Esmail: innovation in TB and HIV research and medicine
“During medical school, I came across a professor who introduced me to research—up until that point, I was content with being an excellent clinician, but that was the moment when I realised that I was missing out on making a larger impact on the population at large”, recalls Assistant Professor Aliasgar Esmail, Pulmonologist at the Groote Schuur Hospital and Deputy Head of the Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Lung Institute in South Africa. In Esmail's study, he “took a portable version of the Gene Xpert test, a PCR-based test for TB, into the community, finding patients with early symptoms of TB, and showing that although Gene Xpert only picks up about half of the patients with TB, it detects almost all patients who were infectious”. Just as he has done since his very first clinical trial, in his post-doctoral research, Esmail will forefront trust through engagement with communities.
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Shirin Heidari: towards gender equity in health research
Coming from a family with “many strong women as role models, and always a sense of activism”, the revolution, which “resulted in a regime oppressing women, men, as well as any dissidents, followed by political oppression and war”, left her with “a very strong distaste for injustice”, and a profound awareness, “very early on”, of the devastating impacts of “a lack of rights, and the lack of a justice system”. In this way, she hopes the idea of sex and gender equity in research will not be “dependent on one person, or topic or area, but becomes the way we work—rather than an exception, it becomes the norm”. Across the board, Heidari adds, “bias and assumptions within existing research structures, in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, and other aspects really skew our knowledge.
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