SYFA (Save Your Future Association) was founded in 2001 by Farmer Tantoh Nforba and is located in Nkambe, North West Province of Cameroon. SYFA works with local farmers, youths and children on environmental protection, organic agriculture and home gardening and currently coordinates the activities of 10 environmental groups at local schools, churches and the prison …
Author Archives: Roger
Small Media Volunteer @ GMFA
GMFA was founded in 1992, by a group of gay men who felt that there was not enough HIV prevention work being specifically targeted at gay men. GMFA‘s mission is to improve gay men’s health by increasing the control they have over their own lives. As a volunteer since 2008, I contribute to the design …
Scientific Publications
Fearnside JF, Dumas ME, Rothwell AR, Wilder SP, Cloarec O, Toye A, Blancher C, Holmes E, Tatoud R, Barton RH, Scott J, Nicholson JK, Gauguier D. Phylometabonomic patterns of adaptation to high fat diet feeding in inbred mice. PLoS ONE 3, e1668 (2008). Toye AA, Dumas ME, Blancher C, Rothwell AR, Fearnside JF, Wilder SP, …
Fundraiser for The Food Chain
Since 2003 volunteer and chair (2003-2006) of the Community Fundraising Committee of The Food Chain whose mission is to improve the health and well being of London’s population living with HIV by alleviating hunger and malnutrition. The Food Chain is a UK registered charity delivering meals every week to more than 500 users across London, …
Challenges facing the UK Research Base
The academic year 2007 started with a “Time Bomb” uncovered by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI): student in England are having it the easy way with an average of 26 hours a week spent studying compared to 30 in Ireland, 35 in France and 41 in Portugal. Variations are wide depending on the subject …
Nabuur Online Facilitator
Online Facilitators (2006-2007) for Nabuur which mission is to give communities in developing countries access to their global Neighbours via the Internet and through these Neighbours to the huge reservoir of resources (knowledge, solutions, energy, and creativity) that is available elsewhere. This is the narrative I wrote when nominated for the 2006 UN Online Volunteer …
Gendering the Fight against Aids
Two strong messages have emerged from the 16th International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada. The first is that with drug treatment now being rolled out in developing countries, prevention should return to centre stage in future policies and strategies. The second is that women’s lives and status need to be improved and that women need …
French Fries and Fat Kids – Asia’s next Epidemic
Popular belief has it that obesity only affects wealthier societies where food is plentiful: the curse of the developed world epitomized by hulking Americans that struggle to order their king-size Big Mac, French Fries and Coke without breaking sweat. Obesity is no longer exclusive to the developed world The reality is a very different. Obesity …
Wealth versus Health – the Thai Frontier
In the battle against HIV and AIDS, Thailand has been exemplary: since 2001, the AIDS death rate there has fallen by 79 percent, thanks to the supply of low-priced locally produced generic drugs and the 30-Baht universal health care scheme. But this success story is about to be challenged by the United States-Thai Free Trade …
The Reactome
The Reactome project is a collaboration between Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The European Bioinformatics Institute, and The Gene Ontology Consortium to develop a curated resource of core pathways and reactions in human biology. Project Summary: curation of the IRS/PKB cascade of events (6 months). Role: Supervision and contribution to the work. The information in the …
