"Disparities in health outcomes underscore the need for equitable public health interventions that account for sociocultural dynamics and structural inequities."

"Care and concern for youth is more so an investment rather than a direct expense."

"What begins as effort eventually becomes identity."

"Growing evidence indicates that once diseases like cancer or cardiovascular disease are diagnosed, these same exposures may be associated with improved survival outcomes."

"The social environment has a major influence on health behaviors that in turn are associated with risk for cancer."

"Cancer is not an invader. It is a mirror."

"I realized that sometimes our curriculum committee didn't listen well enough to other people. If I had it to do over, I would have involved others more and showed them that I was listening to their concerns and addressing their concerns."

"The resulting toll of road traffic crashes and injuries is a heavy cost on communities and countries. iRAP’s work on making roads safer for all road users will be key to the region’s efforts to reduce the crippling burden of unsafe roads."

"I welcome the opportunity to serve as a member of the iRAP Board to help make safer roads a reality in the African region. Many African countries combine young and burgeoning populations with rapid and poorly planned urbanisation and motorisation."

"While there might be a lot of pain and sacrifice, we certainly see joy as well. We save more patients than we lose, we get to help a lot of people, and that more than makes up for the bad times. In my field, ‘Accident & Emergency’, it is possible to see a patient turn around in a few minutes, and that makes it worth it."

"Even then I wanted standards to help us in assessing the students. I wanted all of us to have something look at as we examined the students to make our evaluations more objective. I tried to introduce new topics that I thought were more relevant. Most of what I suggested was out of instinct. I was always looking out for the students. At meetings I would speak up for the students."

"I liked the children and the mothers. Children are special. When they are unwell, they are sad. When they are better, they smile. They are very honest. I thought working in pediatrics would be satisfying"

"But a deeper reason for becoming a lecturer was that as a resident I was involved in teaching medical students, and I loved it."

"The cost of mismanaged medical services culminating in lives needlessly lost was always before me. It was more evident during my year as the Acting Head of the Accident & Emergency at Mulago National Referral Hospital. Frustrated at the many needless injuries, especially from road traffic crashes, I chose to take on trauma care and injury prevention as the focus of my career."

"That also enabled me to see beyond the immediate problems, to the bigger ones that hamper care in LMICs. In trauma, patients are still getting debilitating osteomyelitis because there is not enough saline to carry out a decent debridement (the process of removing unhealthy tissue from the body). Perhaps the surgical community needs to begin addressing upstream factors which make our surgical practice an impossible task."

"We were surprised because we had thought maybe people wouldn't want to come, or maybe they wouldn't want to be seen with each other due to stigma,But they actually wanted something like this — so badly."

"It’s no joke. These symptoms can become severe. If someone feels useless and hopeless, they feel they don’t need to take care of their families or their children."

"They say their patients don’t have those issues and don’t want you to screen them because they don't want it to be known that the patients they care for may have an alcohol problem or depression,”"

"We teach them how to challenge negative thoughts. We call that unhelpful ways of thinking. We teach them to replace unhelpful ways of thinking with helpful ways of thinking.”"

"They don’t need to take the medication. They have no motivation. That’s what the depression does. They couldn’t take care of themselves and could not go to work.”"

"As a researcher, it is much more difficult to make a case as to why certain areas are worth addressing, when the global health community is focused largely on the few pet issues that are deemed worth funding and investigating"

"The gratification from healing someone’s pain or saving a life of someone near death is indescribable. Having said that, Africa needs scientists, tens of thousands of scientists that can help in identifying the problems that cause ill health among the continent’s people, and lasting solutions to those problems."

"The reason why inequalities persist is because we pay lip service to equity. The sustainable development goals (SDG) framework and its various instruments have equity as a key feature. As a result, equity is prominent in global commitments and national health policy framework – but only on paper."

"People eat either too many calories, or they eat things that have too much salt in them, or they eat things that have too much fat in them."

"the way I teach is to always ask students questions as opposed to giving them information. I always challenge them to think. I noticed that the students in my firm did very well in my area. Some of them came back for postgraduate training in pediat"

"A bigger problem is the value of research to society, especially to the communities from which the data is collected. Because research is conceptualized without input from African researchers and other stakeholders, it ends up being of academic value only, without taking into account how the results could help shape policy and practice."

"In addition, the fact that we are an independent research institution, rather than a government-run organisation, makes it harder to forge and maintain long-term relationships with policy makers, especially those in government."

"As a medical student I remember being timid when no one was available to help me in the wards. As a resident I looked for these kinds of students, so I could give them an opportunity to learn. I was able to be there for them because I know that it can be a bit frightening if there's no one to help you."

"Given how few trained mental health providers there are in Uganda, one-on-one therapy just wouldn't be practical, "So I had the idea to have a group therapy intervention."

"am affected by the dysfunction in the global health system whereby problems and their solutions are defined by ‘experts’, who don’t have any lived experiences and who have a poor understanding of the local context."

"We selected patients who presented epistasis or menorrhagia through clinical file and made them pass an interview and biological exams."

"Investigators also completed a paper-based laboratory tracking form in which they documented PDT and ELISA results performed on-site by the facilities themselves in addition to other specimens collected."

"To reduce blood-borne HIV transmission, four main strategies need to be considered: more effective identification of blood donors at high risk of HIV infection, better laboratory screening for HIV, pathogen reduction of blood products and reduced blood utilization. Blood donor risk screening comes first in the overall process of collecting safe blood products."

"We also determined the operational acceptability of the new ASDHQ by collecting qualitative data from the donors. We hypothesized that the ASDHQ questionnaire would reduce the rate of risk deferrals compared to historical data, increase HIV prevalence in deferred donors compared to HIV prevalence in accepted donors."

"We noticed a lot of women were lacking the soft skills, things like management, leadership, budgeting. In addition to those things, mentors talk about the different strategies they used to advance their career.”"

"“So we had senior women scientists speak to the junior women about the obstacles unique to women,” she says. “And that’s how I came to apply for the TDR grant.”"

"had a mentorship programme in place,” she says, “but it wasn’t very strong or well publicized"

"“I told myself if I want to do good clinical research I need to be a good physician. And to be a good doctor meant I needed to go back for more training.”"

"The truth is, women in research and science encounter more hardship compared to their male counterparts."

"But never think that you cannot do it because you’re a woman. Don’t hold yourself back.”"

"We recruited 137 HIV-positive donors (cases) and 256 HIV-negative donors (controls) and gathered risk factor data using audio computer-assisted self-interview."

"The biggest obstacle is balancing work and a personal life, especially with young kids at an early stage of my career"

"The ASDHQ might be efficient only in specific conditions that maximize truthful donor’s responses, requiring each blood service to create an environment of trust and transparency to increase donors’ compliance and improve the accuracy of the questionnaire."

"I feel that the more challenges I have, the more I have energy to tackle the problem”"

"Although women have more opportunities available to them now than in the past, there is still implicit bias, and constant need to fight for equality. Women need support from men and women to break the glass ceiling that still exists."

"INSIGHT into Diversity, an online and print publication in the United States, gave me the Inspiring Women in STEM Award in 2016 in recognition of my effort in training underrepresented minorities for over two decades."

"In 2017, it was rewarding to receive the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship, which allowed me to work on prostate cancer risk among men with institutions in Nigeria, including the University of Ilorin, and Covenant University."

"As far back as 2009, my leadership in health disparities research was recognised by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the Association of Black Health-System Pharmacists with the inaugural leadership award for health disparities. I was selected by the US Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to give the inaugural Barbara Terry-Koroma Health Disparity Legacy Lecture in 2013."

"Women in research, especially biomedical research, face many obstacles and discrimination. Earlier in my career, the perception was that a woman had to choose between having a family and a career."

"The Global Oncology Clinical Trials Congress for blacks is very dear to my heart given the underrepresentation of the black population in clinical trials."