REPRESENT recommendations: improving inclusion and trust in cancer early detection research

Detecting cancer early is essential to improving cancer outcomes. Minoritized groups remain underrepresented in early detection cancer research, which means that findings and interventions are not generalisable across the population, thus exacerbating disparities in cancer outcomes. In light of these challenges, this paper sets out twelve recommendations to build relations of trust and include minoritized groups in ED cancer research. The Recommendations were formulated by a range of stakeholders at the 2022 REPRESENT consensus-building workshop and are based on empirical data, including a systematic literature review and two ethnographic case studies in the US and the UK. The recommendations focus on: Long-term relationships that build trust; Sharing available resources; Inclusive and accessible communication; Harnessing community expertise; Unique risks and benefits; Compensation and support; Representative samples; Demographic data; Post-research support; Sharing results; Research training; Diversifying research teams. For each recommendation, the paper outlines the rationale, specifications for how different stakeholders may implement it, and advice for best practices. Instead of isolated recruitment, public involvement and engagement activities, the recommendations here aim to advance mutually beneficial and trusting relationships between researchers and research participants embedded in ED cancer research institutions

Commentary: Educating journalism students to do comprehensive reporting

Citizens of every country need the news as information disseminator, interpreter, and public mobilizer. We cannot make sense of continued hunger, disease, and mass murder without knowledge of the (in) action of major governments, their multinational corporations, financial institutions, and representatives in the United Nations. Unfortunately, news coverage is often late, episodic, and inadequate in terms of historical and systemic background. When it addresses crises involving national minorities and foreign others, it is sometimes loaded with ethnocentric, racist, and pornographic descriptions of victims, with heroes mostly from the majority community or the global North. It is a truism that representations of crises in the news are the only access to distant events for most of us. In the absence of travel experience or first-hand knowledge, the representation is the only reality. Hitler would not exist for most people without the news. But, how many know the factors and forces that allowed the rise of a genocidaire like Hitler in the much-touted form of government called an electoral democracy, someone who was allowed to kill 6 million other humans? Such knowledge makes a difference on how we understand matters of life and death. The lack of explanation of causes is a longstanding complaint against journalism. Reasons include the pressures of a 24-hour news cycle, issue complexity, ideologically explosive content, and the format, platform or craft focus of news writing. Writing for daily news deadlines permits description of What and Where but only allows limited explanation of the Why and How of an event or issue. Goo

¿Por qué el satélite Cóndor?

Estados Unidos y Rusia representan el 15 por ciento de la población mundial sin embargo utilizan el 50 por ciento de la órbita geoestacionaria, mientras todo el Tercer Mundo emplea menos del 10 por ciento. Los países del Pacto Andino se encuentran trabajando conjuntamente en el uso compartido de un solo sistemas satelital CONDOR. Pero los críticos norteamericanos consideran que es una manera ineficiente e irracional congestionar el espectro orbital. El artículo se centra en describir este proyecto y la lógica Andina, la soberaní

¿Por qué el satélite Cóndor?

Estados Unidos y Rusia representan el 15 por ciento de la población mundial sin embargo utilizan el 50 por ciento de la órbita geoestacionaria, mientras todo el Tercer Mundo emplea menos del 10 por ciento. Los países del Pacto Andino se encuentran trabajando conjuntamente en el uso compartido de un solo sistemas satelital CONDOR. Pero los críticos norteamericanos consideran que es una manera ineficiente e irracional congestionar el espectro orbital. El artículo se centra en describir este proyecto y la lógica Andina, la soberaní

The Morelos satellite system in Mexico: A contextual analysis

The present article deals with the 1985 purchase of satellite communication technology by Mexico for domestic applications. Mody's context-analytic framework1 is used to outline the forces and stakeholders in the adoption of this technology to help to understand the decision and the nature of subsequent domestic applications in Mexico.