Why volunteer for a vaccine study?

Despite a legacy of scientific misconduct,and the usual complexities of conducting science across cultural differences, people in countries across the world volunteer for vaccine studies. 

Why? What motivates them? What are their fears?

Medical anthropologist Sienna Craig, I and our esteemed colleagues recently investigated. Check out our new paper, here in BMC Public Health.

Is a clinical trial of therapy for mothers with HIV unethical?

A global health controversy erupted this summer when the prominent scientific journal Nature ran an article entitled “HIV trial attacked.” Within, commentators squared off over whether a huge ongoing study provides suboptimal and thus unethical treatment options to mothers with HIV in the developing world.

To read more, see my new post at Health Affairs.