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E$$ENTIAL MEDICINE$ in Schools #13
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April workshopsIn April 2021 we ran three modified E$$ENTIAL MEDICINE$ workshops for the University's Experience Sydney and Future Fridays programs. We focussed on helping students to understand that there is a myriad of reasons that all medicines might not be accessible to all people. |
Sharing our work globally at Citizen Science Virtual 2021 - May 2021In May we shared the progress of this project internationally. It was a great opportunity to meet with other teams working on citizen science, and in particular, we had some valuable conversations with other Australian teams about how citizen science can fit into a school environment. |
June 2021 - An in-person school workshopIn June this year, we were lucky enough to be able to run an in-person workshop for some enthusiastic year 10 students at Barker College. I'm going to use this post to reflect on some of the things we did differently in this particular workshop. |
The E$$ENTIAL MEDICINE$ Project
The idea for a Citizen Science project which collects data on the accessibility and availability of medicines to people worldwide came to @alintheopen, Yaela Golumbic & @kym834 in early 2020. For a number of years, our team had been running the Breaking Good project, where we collaborated with school and undergraduate students to find new, cheap synthetic routes for the WHO's Essential Medicines list as well as synthesising new medicines for under-researched diseases such as malaria and mycetoma. But the need to gather more information about the accessibility of medicines coincided with the necessity of pivoting to an online program during the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19 in Sydney, and the E$$ENTIAL MEDICINE$ project was born. Through three targeted challenges - News Flash, Price Hikes, and the Circle of Life - anyone from the public can contribute to our understanding of social, political, geographic, economic and cultural reasons these medicines might not be available to everyone.
In late 2020, we realised that these socio-scientific issues surrounding the development and supply of medicines could be of interest to school-aged students, and that through participation in the program, students could learn important online investigation and science communication skills. So we initiated the design of our first E$$ENTIAL MEDICINE$ in Schools Workshop. In this blog, I am going to share some of our key achievements around the engagement of schools in our Citizen Science Project.
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