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Sue Black is Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University in the UK is on a mission to change perceptions of women in computing and empower them.
As the world comes to grips with the devastating spread of COVID-19, research institutes and drug companies are mobilising to find and test treatments for the disease – in a big way. But how can we be certain that the results of trials will be made public, and what are the costs of non-transparency?
He has been Director-General of the Ministry of Education in Finland, held a professorship at Harvard University and is now professor of education policy at the University of New South Wales. But after high school, when he tried to get into a teaching degree course in Finland, he was knocked back.
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Funding for mental health is so scarce in Zimbabwe, and the stresses of poverty are so pervasive, that Dr Dixon Chibanda decided to improvise. When he decided to act, in 2006, he was one of only four practicing psychiatrists in a country of more than fourteen million.