Jeremy Farrar: Make vaccine available to other countries as soon as our most vulnerable people have received it

Jeremy Farrar: When disaster strikes

Jeremy Farrar had not intended to be at the forefront of avian influenza research. But as the director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, the bird flu outbreak found him.

Caring for our most vulnerable patients.

When to start: as soon as possible

Debate regarding ''When to start'' antiretroviral (ARV) therapy has raged since the introduction of zidovudine in 1987. Based on the entry criteria for the original Burroughs Wellcome (002) study, the field has been anchored to ''CD4 counts'' as the prime metric to indicate ARV treatment initiation for asymptomatic HIV-positive individuals. The pendulum has swung back and forth, based mostly on...

Visual recognition: as soon as you know it is there, you know what it is.

What is the sequence of processing steps involved in visual object recognition? We varied the exposure duration of natural images and measured subjects' performance on three different tasks, each designed to tap a different candidate component process of object recognition. For each exposure duration, accuracy was lower and reaction time longer on a within-category identification task (e.g., di...

Autonomy, as soon as possible

To explain my thoughts on this, I will report the highlights of the research I have been carrying out into (1) how children learn to talk and (2) why, therefore, the phonetics/phonology of English in mature speakers is the way that it is. I will then relate this to L2 learners, in order to ask what we can realistically expect students to do on their own, with and without help from technology, a...