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Essays · notes · dispatches

Ideas in public

Field Notes is where I write through the questions that follow me across clinics, laboratories, organisations and ordinary life — before they become polished certainty.

EssayEvolving2 min read

When epigenetic clocks cross populations

A model can measure biology precisely and still fail the population where it is used. What we owe people a method was never calibrated for.

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  1. 02Essay2 min · Forming

    Why genomic medicine in Africa cannot simply be imported

    Diagnostic pipelines carry assumptions about reference genomes, ancestry and infrastructure. Importing them wholesale imports their blind spots too.

  2. 03Note2 min · Settled

    Leadership as stewardship

    The value of an opportunity is the responsibility it creates, and what becomes possible for others because of it.

  3. 04Essay2 min · Forming

    salam, world.

    named by fate, born early, still becoming. my first signpost.

Three threads I keep returning to: the science, the systems, and the people inside both. More to come.