Oral History Spotlight

Dennis Gillings: Calculated Risk and Reward

Dennis Gillings has always been a risk taker. In 1982, he gave up a secure career as a professor at a top university to build Quintiles, the biostatistical consulting company he had…

Oral History Spotlight

George Poste: Embracing Complexity

George Poste is a big picture guy. He believes that progress in science and medicine requires understandings of complex wholes, and that reductionism is foolhardy. “With reductionism,” he says, “you delude…

In Conversation with Florence Wambugu

On Agriculture and Food Security in Africa