Women in science

Overview

For over 40 years, TDR has been working hard at fighting infectious diseases of poverty, engaging researchers and experts from all over the world in its efforts. Each individual brings unique knowledge, and together they make up a vibrant scientific community called TDR Global. TDR Global is committed to driving and encouraging mentoring of young scientists and fostering research collaborations.

We created a collection of inspiring stories to showcase the incredible work of a range of women scientists. The vision of this TDR Global compendium is to motivate those working in the field by sharing success stories of these women in research. It all started a few years ago when TDR interviewed a group of women scientists we have supported at some point in their careers to track their progress and careers since.

With this compendium, we decided to go one step further and re-interviewed the women from the original group of interviewees to get in-depth knowledge of their one-of-a-kind journeys as women in science. These scientists come from several locations—Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland (Eswatini), Uganda, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to name a few. Each woman featured in the compendium has her own unique story to tell. None of their paths were without its challenges, but it is how they reacted, embraced, and overcame these pressures that impressed us.