Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) have always been a part of Professor Francisca Mutapi’s life, even from a young age growing up in Zimbabwe, where NTDs are prevalent. Now, a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in Biosciences, Co-Director Global Health Academy, and Deputy Director Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA), she is shaping national and global policies around them. In this blog, she talks about her global family, the one she found being part of the AAS fellowship, and all the nurture and support that family provides in helping build a science career. This is part of the work of AAS Open Research, a partner platform with the African Academy of Sciences.
Introducing Tony Ly, a Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh and a member of the Early Career Researcher advisory board for Wellcome Open Research, a partner platform with Wellcome. In this Q&A, he shares how he hopes to use his role as a Board Member to help others recognise the value of open research and to help innovate scientific publishing.
The Gates Open Research (GOR) platform, a partner platform with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, marks three years of publication this month. Over this time the platform has grown in popularity and size. In this blog post, Ashley Farley and Hannah Wilson, explore the publishing activity on the GOR platform and look ahead to what we have planned for 2020.
We are delighted to be working together with other scholarly publishers to maximize the efficiency of peer review, ensuring that key work related to COVID-19 is reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible. Michael Markie talks more about this collaborative effort and encourages all those with expertise to review COVID-19 research to sign up to the rapid reviewer list.
This month marks two years since the launch of our partner platform, AAS Open Research. We have taken this opportunity to reflect on the impact and development of the platform over the last two years and to look forward to the future.
Helping fellow early career researchers seek new research opportunities and networks through open research. In this Q&A, Cherry Lim, a member of the Early Career Researchers advisory board for Wellcome Open Research, a partner platform with Wellcome, shares her aim to achieve this goal.
From an early age, Professor Catherine Jane Ngila, AAS Fellow in Chemical Sciences, felt discriminated against by her culture just for being a girl. In this blog, she discusses the challenges she has faced and how she is using her platform as an AAS Fellow, to inspire the next generation of women in STEM. This is part of the work of AAS Open Research, a partner platform with the African Academy of Sciences.
A group of clinicians and academics came together with a commitment to working on and improving Inclusion Health. Julie Broderick and Clíona Ní Cheallaigh tell us more about this unique initiative as they go into detail about the steps they and their team are taking to update the undergraduate curriculum, so that it addresses the complex societal challenges in health education, as covered in their open letter published on HRB Open Research, a partner platform with the Health Research Board.
Sharing the news about Wellcome Open Research, a partner platform, and their new collection, which has been created to prioritise, expedite and openly publish the latest COVID-19 research developments from Wellcome-funded researchers.
Tiny technology with life-changing potential for communities. Nanotechnology researcher, Anita Etale, Global Climate Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a FLAIR (Future Leaders – African Independent Research) funded recipient. She used her FLAIR funding to research the use of nanomaterials to produce clean water from the contaminated supply produced from mine draining.…
