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The eminent American infectious diseases specialist who worked tirelessly for the destigmatisation of HIV/AIDS passed away on Nov 18, 2022.

Margo Greenwood was born in Wetaskiwin, AB, Canada, to a Cree father and English mother, and was raised and educated in Ponoka, AB. Both places are located in Treaty 6 territory. Tragically, Greenwood lost both her parents, “in my mid-teens”, she recalls, “and so I was really on my own”. It was an experience that influenced the focus of her work. Greenwood is now Professor in the Education programme at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George, BC, Canada. She i...

Yin Paradies, the Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Race Relations at Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia started his academic life studying applied mathematics and computing. His first job, at the Indigenous Health Statistics Unit of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, took him towards his work in heath inequalities, on racism as a determinant of Indigenous health in Australia, and his current focus on decolonisation and Indigenous knowledges and perspectives. Paradies, who is a Wa...

Delan Devakumar, Professor of Global Child Health and Co-Director of the Centre for the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents at University College London (UCL), UK, has always understood racism and what it is like to be discriminated against. About a year before he was born, his parents’ house in Sri Lanka was burnt down. “It was a targeted attack”, he says. “My father comes from the Tamil minority group.” Later, as a south Asian boy growing up in north Wales, UK, he experienced r...

Before our interview, Ntobeko Ntusi, Chair and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, had been doing a bedside tutorial with students. He highlighted the different way they had presented the Black and White patients. “I asked the students why it is important to clarify the HIV status of Black patients when you present them when it has no bearing on their clinical presentation. And you can see the dumbfounded faces becau...

Lorenz Hofbauer grew up on a farm in southern Germany. “It was nothing like urban life; people get up early and there is a lot of hard physical labour, particularly around the harvest”, explained Hofbauer, who is now Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, and Geriatric Medicine at Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden, Germany). Some of his uncles and cousins still work their farms, growing hops, and brewing beer. “On the farm, you do not learn to...

The book COVID and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State was born out of research commissioned by a government development agency in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tells the story of how marginalised communities in the rural periphery of South Africa experienced the constraints placed on their funerals and customary practices during one of the worlds longest and most restrictive lockdowns.

Health diplomat who helped guide UK health and development funding strategy. Born on March 10, 1973 in Woking, UK, he died on May 29, 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland, aged 52 years.