Rashad Massoud has been a Faculty Member in the Public Health faculty since 2005. He visited the F1000 offices last week, and spoke to us about his public health work for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) around the globe. He advocates applying the science of epidemiology in order to strengthen and improve…
Securing a grant for scientific research is, more often than not, long, long-winded and by no means an easy feat. Recent Lasker award winner and F1000 IAB member Mary-Claire King‘s journey towards getting the grant that led to her discovery of the BRCA1 gene was a little more eventful than most. In a series of…
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, our Head of Faculty in Public Health, will be interviewed by Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs this Sunday. Sir Michael is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London and has spent his career investigating the key factors in leading a long and healthy life,…
This is a guest post from Cristiana Santos de Macedo, a Research Fellow from the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, who works with Faculty Member Carlos Morel in the Global Health section of the Public Health & Epidemiology Faculty at F1000Prime. Here, Cristiana tells us of her experiences with the Brazilian Government scholarship program…
To mark World Malaria Day, Phil Fischer highlights the problems faced by those fighting the disease around the world.
Caltech researchers pioneer a new approach to HIV vaccination in mice via ‘vectored immunoprophylaxis’ (VIP).
A light-hearted look at the impact of 21st century life on fertility.
A guest post from Senior Editor Patrick Burke on the stress and burnout faced by pediatric oncologists.
The link between red meat and diabetes, and spinach gets even better.
