Monthly Archives: January 2022

BMC Series Highlights Blog – December 2021

Can we eliminate dye pollution from water with a new catalyst? • Has the loss of genes in water bears helped them to become almost immortal? • Is COVID-19 testing in homeless shelters feasible? • Does having a supportive family help LGB individuals sleep better? • Is a one-stop gynecology cancer clinic effective for ovarian cancer screening?

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Introducing the BMC Series SDG Editorial Board Members: Gerald Mboowa

Prrofile picture Gerald Mboowa

Gerald Mboowa, PhD, is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Infectious Diseases. He is a Bioinformatics Implementation Science Expert at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and a researcher at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University. He specializes in supporting national public health institutions to utilize DNA sequencing technologies and computational tools in disease outbreak investigations, pathogen characterization as well antimicrobial resistance surveillance.

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