Iron and Malaria Interactions: Research Needs From Basic Science to Global Policy

Iron and Malaria Interactions: Research Needs From Basic Science to Global Policy12

The resurgence in interest and concern regarding the potentially malign interactions between iron administration and malaria infections, especially in young children and pregnant women, has generated a research agenda that is both broad and deep. This paper highlights some of the key questions under 5 headings: basic science; clinical science and epidemiology; technological developments; countr...

Zoonotic Malaria – Global Overview and Research and Policy Needs

The four main Plasmodium species that cause human malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae, and Plasmodium ovale, are transmitted between humans by mosquito vectors belonging to the genus Anopheles. It has recently become evident that Plasmodium knowlesi, a parasite that typically infects forest macaque monkeys, can be transmitted by anophelines to cause malaria in ...

Science in response to basic human needs.

Despite the tremendous accomplishments in science and technology during this century, we go into the next century with nearly one fourth of the world population living in severe poverty and the gap between the rich and the poor widening. How can we alter this utterly indefensible situation? What changes in our development strategy can lead us to a more equitable society? The formidable power of...

Basic science and public policy.

I would like to address my attention to the Cancer Program as seen by the basic science community, not so much in terms of dollars and cents but of the objectives; i.e., where and how the basic sciences should fit and what role they have been asked to play in the Program. I am not going to deal with specifics of appropriation from the NCI budget, nor with the scientific basis of cancer control....

Basic Research Needs for Superconductivity