Programmes to boost health and biomedical research capacity in the developing world must include strategies to increase both the number of female scientists and the attention paid to the health problems of women, according to a senior health researcher at Bristol University's School of Policy Studies in the United Kingdom. Speaking in Arusha, Tanzania, at the sixth annual conference of the Global Forum for Health Research, Lesley Doyal said that in most countries, there is a marked absence of both female researchers and women as the subjects of research.