What Lurks Outside - the Good, the Bad, and… the Creative?

Over the last century there have been countless new treatments developed to combat malaria with 2021 seeing the advent of a vaccine. The identification of drug resistant malaria has provided a new concern. With over 250 million malaria infections across the globe, it is essential that medicinal chemists design new drugs that bite back!

Walking is not just pedestrian. The everyday stroll can become a social, political, playful or creative act, help connect communities, improve environments and support well-being. WalkCreate explores how the pandemic impacted walking in the UK. It also demonstrates the potential of the arts to sustain, encourage and support more equitable walking. We want to dismantle barriers to walking well so WalkCreate is inclusive of all bodies, speeds, paces and assistive technologies e.g. wheelchairs. We will share creative walking tools anyone can take-away to try anywhere.

Globally, 1.3 billion people depend on animals to grow crops and maintain families, particularly in less wealthy countries. These animals are affected by disease, impacting their welfare and creating human health risks. The families that depend on them suffer, as their fragile livelihoods are easily damaged. Understanding disease costs and their implications is key to implementing actions which limit disease and strengthen societies. Such an understanding requires data, but also people who know how to relate patterns in data to the real world, and when data are missing but decisions needed, what do we do?