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Heather Zar
37 quotes
“Conventional practice was that TB was difficult to confirm in children.”
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“There was a misconception that asthma is rare in African children.”
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“The study showed that it's common, with prevalence rates that are often higher than global rates.”
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“The study will hopefully provide valuable information to identify new interventions for improving child health.”
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“Translational research is the bridge between clinical and basic science research.”
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“The implementation of findings into practice and public health including policy and guidelines.”
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“Despite children being a third of the population, child health is relatively underfunded and underresourced.”
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“Child health has been worsening over the past 20 years in South Africa.”
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“More funding and capacity development are needed to strengthen child health programmes.”
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“My hope is that it helps shine a spotlight on this relatively under resourced area of research.”
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“Children are so seldom prioritised on the health agenda.”
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“There’s a lack of knowledge about the burden of childhood illnesses even though children make up 37 percent of our population.”
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“Much childhood death and illness is preventable.”
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“Improving access to affordable, effective interventions globally is vital.”
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“There’s so much respiratory disease and there’s so much to be done.”
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“I was always very interested in the potential public health impact.”
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“I wanted to be in an area in which you could turn things around.”
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“In pulmonology, there’s a lot of immediate change oxygen, antibiotics, those sorts of interventions, plus interventions on a longer timeframe.”
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“It’s a key issue to get these products to low and middle income countries (LMICs).”
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“This is where children are dying from RSV.”
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“Paediatrics is about creating better futures.”
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“The big question in the project is, what makes for a healthy child?”
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“We enrolled pregnant women, moms in these peri urban poor areas.”
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“Following them through pregnancy, through childbirth, and now we are following the children who are turning 11 years old.”
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“We wanted to look very broadly to understand why some children get ill.”
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“Why some children are healthy children from the same communities.”
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“We looked at growth, at neurodevelopment, and now as the children are getting older, we are starting to look at non-communicable diseases like cardiometabolic disease and asthma.”
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“The mother’s health, both physical and psychological, factors like depression and anxiety.”
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“We looked at the home environment, we visited the homes before the children were born, and after.”
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“We looked at child and maternal nutrition, at allergies.”
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“We even looked at things like parenting style.”
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“Some of their findings were predictable.”
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“Mothers who smoke in pregnancy have children who are smaller, children who have more lung disease, children who are less healthy.”
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“Now this is very important because of the new vaccines, which we really need to access for our children.”
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“Children suffering from diseases of poverty.”
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“When Mandela was freed, there was so much euphoria and so much hope for the future.”
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“We felt that this is where we could make a contribution.”
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