Abstract Background Despite Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) being the epicenter of the HIV
epidemic, uptake of HIV testing is not optimal. While qualitative studies have been …

There are increasing calls to decolonise aspects of science, and global health is no
exception. The decolonising global health movement acknowledges that global health …

COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled,
processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in …

Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future
preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on questions of supply, with attention to …

Unknown knowns—or “public secrets”—may play an integral part in publicly funded medical
science. In one large transnational field research site in Africa, such unknowing pertains to …

Why did Ebola response initiatives in the Upper Guinea Forest Region regularly encounter
resistance, occasionally violent? Extending existing explanations concerning local and …

Community engagement is an increasingly common component of scientific research, policy-
making, ethical review, and technology design. Drawing on a growing consensus about the …

Background Celiac disease (CD) occurs in approximately 1% of the Western population. It is
a lifelong disorder that is associated with impaired quality of life (QOL) and an excessive risk …

Background This paper discusses the establishment of a clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine
candidate in Kambia District, Northern Sierra Leone during the epidemic, and analyses the …

Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide a powerful means of
identifying genetic variants that play a role in common diseases. Such studies present …