Anthony Solomon

Without mapping we can not launch interventions, but I think that's ok. If there are bullets in the air the biggest health problem is not the risk of blindness in 20 or 30 years' time, it's something much more visceral and immediate.

They faced tribal warfare and rogue villagers in Papua New Guinea who spread a rumor that the teams were vampires, they worked in Ethiopia's Afar region, one of the most hostile territories in the world in which to conduct community based research, amid sandstorms, temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius and deadly venomous spiders.