Advances in innovative, sustainable, and equitable science is rooted in cultivating environments that allow all trainees to thrive. To continue to normalize abusive and exploitative academic practices while dismissing trainees from historically excluded and minoritized backgrounds with the sentiment that “you grow through what you go through” is comparable to attributing a poor harvest to droughts while actively salting the earth.
Continue ReadingTo give the female body a place at the table, under the microscope, at the bench, and in a white coat at the bedside is to restore, in some part, her bodily autonomy and assert that she is equally deserving of her universal, indivisible, and interdependent human right to health.
Continue ReadingAlthough climate change will be experienced across the globe, this crisis will only exacerbate existing inequalities. Resilience is no replacement for the fulfilment of human rights and no human is an island in facing these storms.
Continue ReadingStart with dessert! Understanding scRNA-seq can be as simple and rewarding as enjoying a beloved Filipino summer treat.
Continue ReadingUltimately, the social disparities that arise due to the tone of one’s skin are based on a biochemical reaction regulated by genes selected for as a product of evolution and adaptation – beyond our control.
Continue ReadingEnding the COVID-19 pandemic will take more than a science miracle…it’s about equitable access to care and health for all!
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