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Women in STEM: Valentina Ndolo
I hope my research will lead to the accelerated control, elimination, and hopefully, eradication of anthrax in Uganda as well as other countries in Africa and worldwide. I use mathematical modelling to...
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Gendered play in hunter-gatherer children strongly influenced by community...
Based on observations of more than one hundred children in two different hunter-gatherer communities in sub-Saharan Africa, an international team, led by researchers from the University of Cambridge,...
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The plant scientist with a practical vision for Africa (and who wasn’t...
Shorthand Story: Voykx85FvCShorthand Story Head: The plant scientist with a practical vision for Africa (and who wasn’t content to sit and drink tea).Shorthand Story Body: This Cambridge LifeThe plant...
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Open-source ventilator designed by Cambridge team for use in low- and...
Built primarily for use in low- and middle-income countries, the OVSI ventilator can be cheaply and quickly manufactured from readily available components. Current ventilators are expensive and...
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Surging numbers of first-generation learners at risk of being left behind in...
Research by academics at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Addis Ababa University and the Ethiopian Policy Studies Institute, examined the progress of thousands of students in...
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School segregation by wealth is creating unequal learning outcomes for...
The University of Cambridge-led study shows that children from the very poorest families, in what are already some of the lowest-income countries in the world, consistently perform worse in basic...
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Found in translation
Shorthand Story: 9Ckj7xX2zUShorthand Story Head: Found in TranslationShorthand Story Body: TwitterFacebookFound in TranslationWhen the first COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Africa, Cambridge...
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Phone-based HIV support system repurposed for COVID-19 monitoring in Uganda
People entering Uganda have been required to quarantine for 14 days as part of the country’s lockdown measures, during which time they are monitored by the Ugandan Ministry of Health for development of...
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Call of the wild collector
Shorthand Story: JNwKjA78iIShorthand Story Head: Call of the wild collector*/ */ Shorthand Story Body: TwitterFacebookCall of the wild collectorBy Louise WalshWalking at ‘botanist pace’ on Mount Terror...
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The Facebook post that launched a thousand shields (and counting)
Shorthand Story: 6agwcc66HTShorthand Story Head: The Facebook post that launched a thousand shields (and counting) */ Shorthand Story Body: TwitterFacebookThe Facebook postthat launched athousand...
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Antiretroviral therapy fails to treat one-third of HIV patients in Malawi...
The observational study involving more than 1,300 people was led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), University of Malawi College of Medicine and University of Cambridge.It...
View ArticleEnterprising researchers: Making a difference in Southern Africa
An award-winning team from Cambridge, Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia has been bolstering entrepreneurship in Southern Africa and supporting some exciting new ventures along the way.
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‘Spill-over’ effects show hidden value of prioritising education of poorest...
The newly-reported study, by academics at the University of Cambridge, is one of the first to measure the complete value that interventions targeting poor and marginalised children also have for many...
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In Ethiopia, schools still lack basic means to contain COVID-19, as pupils...
The two new research and policy reports, compiled by academics at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with partners in Ethiopia, draw attention to the combined educational and practical...
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Open-source toolkit helps developing countries meet demand for COVID-19...
High demand for millions of COVID-19 tests per day combined with a disrupted global supply chain has left many countries facing diagnostic shortages. In a recent Nature commentary, John Nkengasong,...
View ArticleSurviving birth
Researchers at one of the busiest maternity hospitals in the world aim to help more women survive complications giving birth.
View ArticleBritain's first colonial anthropology experiment revealed
A new exhibition at MAA examines the pioneering ethnographic archive assembled by Britain’s first colonial anthropologist, Cambridge alumnus Northcote Thomas.
View ArticlePangolin trafficking: Iceberg tip of Nigeria's illegal trade revealed
New findings on Nigerian-linked pangolin seizures suggest that current global estimates for trafficking of the animal are far too small, say researchers.
View ArticleThe start-up bringing clean water to Uganda
Meet social enterprise founder, Francesca O'Hanlon whose tech start-up is partnering with local plumbing businesses to bring clean water to communities in Uganda.
View ArticleEarliest human remains in eastern Africa dated to more than 230,000 years ago
The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognised as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they...
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