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Adrian Liston, professor of pathology at the University of Cambridge, UK, has published several illustrated children’s books on the topic of vaccination and has developed a computer game called ‘VirusFighter’. Here, he shares his thoughts on how to become an effective science communicator.
Gary Koretzky, who was president of the American Association of Immunologists from 2021 to 2022, shares his thoughts on the responsibility of scientists to make science more accessible to a broad public, and reflects on lessons learned during the pandemic.
In this World View article, eminent immunologist Peter Doherty suggests that we should consider the COVID-19 crisis as a training run for future, potentially worse pandemics and organize accordingly.