The www.mother-child.org website has just undergone an extensive revision in an effort to provide a clear, concise image of our basic premises and purpose. We believe that these revisions will improve your access to the site’s facilities thereby helping you to achieve your objectives in research. So it’s a good time for us to question our own motives and methods in developing and promoting this website.

Specifically, we need your responses to the following questions:

1. Is our basic premise correct from your perspective? In low income countries, as in rich countries, are sustained improvements in maternal and child health, to a degree, dependent on strong local relevant research and a productive local core group of scientists?
2. Is professional isolation (lack of access to scientist colleagues and to an environment of discussion, criticism and support) a serious deterrent to sustaining your research career?
3. Can effective low cost, secure electronic communications compensate for at least some aspects of the actual isolation experienced by many young aspiring scientists? Is our technology appropriate for that task and for your computer facility?

We need your responses to these questions and any other comments you may have on our website. It’s easy to post a weblog!