• Question: If you could make one thing better in the world what would it be?

    Asked by agraham705 to Anne, Florence, Mark, Neil, Sinead on 16 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Sinead Balgobin

      Sinead Balgobin answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      As a scientist that works in drug synthesis, I want to help cure diseases that unnecessarily ravage poorer countries that don’t have access to our amazing healthcare and relatively safe countries. Diseases like malaria and sleeping sickness kill too many people, and I would like to see cures for these diseases.

      I want everyone in the world to have the same chances to have a positive effect on the world, and I think that not having access to these chances because you are poor, or because you are likely to die of a disease that should be curable is unacceptable.

    • Photo: Mark Collins

      Mark Collins answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      I would like to make medicine cheaper to produce as I believe this is a realistic aim and would have a major affect on the world so we could all share on the marvellous work done by great scientists across the globe, at the moment producing a drug product costs an enormous amount of money and so when a new and potentially life-saving drug comes to market it can be extremely expensive to buy and use and this puts governments and health trusts off, if we reduced the costs and therefore the drugs would be cheaper, more lives could be saved.

    • Photo: Florence McCarthy

      Florence McCarthy answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      I would make the difference between rich and poor less – poverty accounts for much of the strife in the world and in reality there really is enough for everyone.

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