Roly Gosling, M.D. was the Project Leader for the Kilimanjaro Intermittent Preventive Therapy for malaria in Infants Study in Tanga, Tanzania from 2004-2008, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The study was part of a larger group called the IPTI Consortium which is a group of universities throughout the world interested in preventing malaria in children under the age of one. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Disease Control and Vector Biology Unit of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is now practicing medicine again in London at The Royal Free and University College Medical School and looks forward to his next adventure in malaria or tuberculosis research abroad.

'Many, many discoveries are made by merely observing what is seen in everyday life.
It is in a state of contemplation that you can really develop understandings
or even have epiphanies.'
- Roly Gosling, M.D.

I had the privilege of seeing Roly at work in amongst his staff and with patients in Tanga, Tanzania. He is so obviously a wonderful leader and caring physician and, as you might be able to tell, he is hilarious, charming and always wears the loudest shirts you've ever seen - so his self-perception epiphanies were especially interesting to me. We called him 'The Mayor' as every single person we came across greeted him and would talk to him about something. The entire village threw a going away party for him when he left a month later (which, of course, 'The Mayor' paid for). He is back in London now and is still awaiting the results of his TB culture that sits in a freezer in Moshi, Tanzania. We conducted his interview on the back porch of his home in Tanga.