epidemiologists

"We can find a cure for HIV/AIDS. In Uganda, we are not short of brains, we are not short of ideas, we are just short of funding. We’re always limping. And it needs to stop."

"I would have wanted to know the motive of the scientists who knew it would take long but transmitted inadequate information."

"HIV/AIDS is a global concern, not only an African problem."

"The media is key to creating this link between science and society as science not communicated is science lost. Publishing findings in journals is good but the information therein never reaches the public. By reporting about scientific developments, the media contribute to public understanding of and engagement with science and technology."

"The numbers, not only in Uganda, but across Africa, are still many."

"Without any doubt, this honorary degree will increase the visibility of the work that we are doing at JCRC."

"It’s not a Ugandan-peculiar situation, but certainly there is need for increased funding."

"If we don’t get increased support, not only from PEPFAR, but the global community, we may lose ground and start losing the impressive gains that we have achieved over the last seven years."

"There are more than those who have already started on treatment. And therefore, my message was to request for continued support to Africa so that we can treat the huge numbers of people, who are still in desperate need of life-saving medicines."

"They wouldn’t be so many as to overwhelm the budget. We should be able to handle all of those patients who are in immediate need of treatment for their very survival."

"This is an individual honour, but I don’t work alone. I work with a team and so this will exponentially increase the visibility of what we are doing to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic."

"What we do in Uganda, and what affects people in Uganda, will eventually affect you, no matter where you live. If you have a long vision, you should be able to see this, but some people don’t."

"And yet those in immediate need of antiretroviral therapy are estimated to be over seven million."

"The Nigerian government should implement the home management of malaria scale-up plan. Health care interventions are feasible at the community level and laypersons, if trained and supervised, could contribute to the health care of their communities."

"We need more research to understand why the control measures put in place have not reduced the burden and why interventions are not deployed as well as how they can be deployed"

"If every home does this and does not have to go to the hospital to treat uncomplicated malaria, it would go a long way to reduce the burden of malaria."

"If we have the community people doing it correctly themselves, it would go a long way in reducing the burden of malaria."

"Getting to the people in the hard-to-reach areas and rural communities that lack amenities and drugs is an effective way of curtailing malaria in the country."

"The beauty of this data is we can look for molecular signatures for better donor selection and build personalized risk calculators for recipients. We want to tailor treatment to the particular patient."

"Leadership is about creating opportunities for others to excel."

"We think that this research will probably introduce a paradigm shift in donor selection. This can help get us away from the idea of chronological age and towards building a set of molecular markers that can define the cellular age of a donor."

"Even being in medicine, you don’t know all the ins and outs, but I saw it from the other direction."

"Transplantation has definitely improved with time, but still a lot of patients die after this procedure. We still have an average five year survival after these procedures of 50 or 60 percent, so we still have a lot to do."

"Together, we will build a legacy of excellence that resonates across borders. I am ready for the CHALLENGE!."

"Every human being has God-given potential which is theirs to exploit. My background, which I had originally considered a hindrance, became the ideal sword to empower and inspire others who see themselves in me."

"Chronological age is kind of a washy marker. It doesn’t tell you the full story."

"Believe in yourself: When I was young, I never thought I could be where I am today. I doubted myself. I lacked self-confidence."

"True mentorship dismantles barriers and creates equitable pathways for innovation."

"We drive transformative and sustainable change by supporting research that changes lives, informs policy, and empowers communities. Africa must see itself not merely as a consumer of knowledge, but as a producer of solutions."

"The door closes and our African nations are left outside with tea and croissants while the decisions are being made inside. We must change that"

"A forum like this could help us plan for those engagements so the teams that go can have a proper African perspective."

"...sustainable development, it's very much a thinking of the development part without putting sustainability and I feel that the 'be sustainable' is very silent. So my... my final words would be let us try to put that 'sustainable' back into sustainable development. Thank you"."

"It has been an honor and privilege to work on behalf of D.C. residents through a leading institution and with dedicated colleagues who truly embody our commitment to justice. As long as health disparities continue to impact populations in this city, we have more work to do."

"There are several cancer prevention screenings that need to be utilized to save lives"

"Alternatively, exposure notification is usually conducted completely digitally on an opt-in basis. This process involves the use of smartphones to create a log of potential close contacts."

"In the third grade, one of my teachers told me I wasn’t going to be good for anything but prostitution, and I said well maybe."

"Contact tracing is an activity that is commonly done to interrupt transmission of communicable diseases, or diseases that are passed from one person to another. It is critically important in interrupting transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19."

"These two terms are commonly confused. Contact tracing is a very specific method for public health intervention that requires in-depth investigation of potential exposure, risk for severe disease, and risk for transmission of the virus to others."

"I want viewers to see a glimpse into the experiences of our elders, and then, perhaps, we can extend more grace and care for a group of people surviving a world that changed around them."

"I think science is like tofu"

"Whatever seasonings you put in it, it will just sop it right up. So, if you season it with racism, it will become racist. It’s incumbent upon me as a scientist to choose my marinade differently … to season it with multiplicity, season it with different thoughts, season it with change."

"Towards that end, we at CBCC have already begun to expand our efforts."

"I started thinking maybe I am a bad kid."

"Pap test, colorectal cancer screening, lung cancer screening and HPV testing need to be addressed and incorporated into the communities we serve."

"My father taught history at Calcutta University but he had so many diverse interests. He was also a film critic, a theatre critic, and he sang very well. He wrote poems and novels, but he did it in a way that was rather wonderful: he'd suddenly say, ‘oh I wrote this poem yesterday’ or he would say, ‘oh by the way, I'm going to be in this play’. There was this sense that you can just do what you want to do."

"Many are saying these projected numbers by Ramanan Laxminarayan will cause panic. I disagree. I think him telling us that India could get 300 to 500 million #Corona cases by July is a call to action. It brings home gravity of what could happen if we don't isolate diligently."

"Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan suggests that if mathematical models applied in US & UK were applied to India, we could be looking at 300 million #Covid19 infections."

"Some don’t want lockdowns because of the economic and human costs. But they also don’t want there to be a flood of cases into hospitals. Perhaps they are counting on chloroquine or BCG vaccination to save the day. Unfortunately, Covid-19 cannot be dealt with through wishful thinking."

"Our initial estimates showed that 300 million to 500 million Indians were likely to be infected with the coronavirus by the end of July. Most of the cases would be without symptoms or with mild infections, but about a tenth — 30 million to 50 million — would most likely be severe."

"What begins as effort eventually becomes identity."