About this Research Topic
We are proud to present the inaugural Frontiers in Malaria “Women in Malaria Research” series of article collections.
As in many other spheres of life, in science women face barriers, long-standing biases and gender stereotyping throughout their careers. This lack of opportunities and recognition discourages girls and women away from science-related fields and the reality is that less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. This discrimination is even greater in fields of diseases that are most prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, such as malaria research.
Frontiers in Malaria recognizes this situation and wants to be part of the solution. We are committed to fight the gender inequality deeply embedded in research culture, and for that we want to give voice to all female scientists in malaria and provide an opportunity to increase their visibility and network.
To achieve this, we are excited to offer this platform to support and empower women scientists promoting their work across all fields of malaria.
Therefore, the work presented here highlights the diversity of research performed across the entire breadth of malaria research and presents advances in theory, experiment, and methodology with applications to compelling problems, including:
- Antimalarial drug resistance
- Malaria vectors biology and control
- Vector-parasite interactions
- Pathogenesis of malaria
- Diagnosis and treatment of malaria
- Transmission biology
- Evolutionary ecology of malaria parasites
- Malaria functional genomics and epigenetics
- Social and economics aspects of malaria
Please note: to be considered for this collection, the first or last author and the corresponding author should be a researcher who identifies as a woman
As in many other spheres of life, in science women face barriers, long-standing biases and gender stereotyping throughout their careers. This lack of opportunities and recognition discourages girls and women away from science-related fields and the reality is that less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. This discrimination is even greater in fields of diseases that are most prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, such as malaria research.
Frontiers in Malaria recognizes this situation and wants to be part of the solution. We are committed to fight the gender inequality deeply embedded in research culture, and for that we want to give voice to all female scientists in malaria and provide an opportunity to increase their visibility and network.
To achieve this, we are excited to offer this platform to support and empower women scientists promoting their work across all fields of malaria.
Therefore, the work presented here highlights the diversity of research performed across the entire breadth of malaria research and presents advances in theory, experiment, and methodology with applications to compelling problems, including:
- Antimalarial drug resistance
- Malaria vectors biology and control
- Vector-parasite interactions
- Pathogenesis of malaria
- Diagnosis and treatment of malaria
- Transmission biology
- Evolutionary ecology of malaria parasites
- Malaria functional genomics and epigenetics
- Social and economics aspects of malaria
Please note: to be considered for this collection, the first or last author and the corresponding author should be a researcher who identifies as a woman
Keywords: Malaria research, female researchers
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