Globe Trotting For Science
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Dr. Christopher Loffredo discusses his book 'Globe Trotting for Science' and shares stories from his fieldwork in cancer prevention.
A cancer epidemiologist walks into the Australian outback, builds a field camp at 22, and accidentally sparks a small-town “cookie war” between two rival grandmothers. That’s the tone of this conversation with Dr. Christopher Loffredo of Georgetown University, whose new book Globe Trotting for Science blends global fieldwork stories with the real stakes of cancer prevention and public health research. We talk about what science looks like outside the lab: the messy logistics, the teamwork, a...
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