• Question: What dream do you have as a scientist?

    Asked by Emily.m to Kevin, Liz, Beccy, Rosie on 9 Jun 2017.
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      anon answered on 9 Jun 2017:

      Good question…

      I wish I had more time so that I could work on even more diseases.

      There are so many diseases transmitting today. There is still polio – a disease that could be eradicated (=eliminated from the entire world) if we collectively could vaccinate enough people. Cholera is spreading in Yemen which is heartbreaking. This wouldn’t happen if we all had access to clean water and good sanitation. There’s malaria, HIV/AIDS, dengue…

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      Rosie Fok answered on 10 Jun 2017:

      That all our children and grandchildren across the globe have the opportunity to get a good, solid education in science. This will create the scientists of the future, and also tackle the destructive beliefs some people hold that have no basis in science (for example, that one gender is less worth than another, that one race is superior – when in fact we are all Homo sapiens).

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      Liz Buckingham-Jeffery answered on 11 Jun 2017:

      I use maths and statistics to try and understand more about the illness norovirus. Norovirus causes vomiting and diarrhoea. Most people who get norovirus in the UK get better. However, diarrhoea does kill millions of children every year in poorer countries across the world. Which is so upsetting, because it is often so easy to prevent and to treat. So my dream is that developments in science will be able to eliminate health inequalities like this.

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