Haleema Shakur Still

Tranexamic acid has this amazing story.

It really is a story of struggle and misogyny and everything bad you can imagine in science.

We went in believing something and the result shocked us into learning even more.

I'm Halima Shukur Still.

I'm an emeritus professor of global health clinical trials at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

I was never really interested in women's health because it was never on my horizon.

I started life as a nurse and I never actually did women's health.

I have no idea why I managed to bypass that totally.

And

In my research life, I was very interested in traumatic injuries.

Because I think I had a really major brain injury when I was younger.

And I had a massive hemorrhage.

Everyone thought I was going to die, but I managed to survive.

So I've had a real personal interest in traumatic injuries.

And we were doing a trial of traumatic injuries, looking for ways of stopping people bleeding to death.

And we were doing the trial in over 50 countries around the world.

And I was absolutely enjoying it because I was really privileged to go and visit people

hospitals around the world, you know, from Latin America to Africa to Asia.

And I was in a hospital in Nigeria, in the capital city, Abuja.

And we were doing what we're supposed to do as trialists, go and check the trial is being done correctly.