It makes me appreciate the community that transformed a little girl growing up in Kenya into an international award-winning scientist. - Faith Osier

I try to understand how adults in Africa learn to live in harmony with the parasite responsible for malaria, such that infections do not make them ill. This knowledge could help us design vaccines that would protect children, who can die as a result of a malaria infection.

When you come into a place, it is really important to see people who are achieving things,” Professor Osier said. “If you come into a place where people are dead wood, however brilliant you may be, you are going to become dead wood yourself.

I had three late miscarriages and one early and that took a long while to recover from. Some women have children with serious disabilities.