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Quarraisha Abdool Karim
11 quotes
“As far as women go, there's a lot more we still need to do.”
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“The vulnerability of young women is very much tied into gender power differences in society.”
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“For most of my life I thought about science and its application to leaving people better off, so I wanted to be a scientist and do something that would help people.”
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“Women continue to inspire me to persist with my scientific endeavors. While some progress has been made, much more remains to be done to ensure a non-sexist and just society.”
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“When we come together with unity of purpose, we can achieve great things.”
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“When solutions are not shared fairly or equitably, the pathogen thrives, as we witnessed during COVID-19, and another example where sharing information openly as South African scientists did during the emergence of the Omicron variant resulted in a travel ban by several countries in the Global North for the entire southern African region.”
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“We have to balance mission-oriented investments with curiosity investments, because the discoveries from curiosity research enable the innovation for mission-driven science. Undertaking biomedical research is high-risk, and more often than not does not produce the desired outcomes. However, we learn and understand the phenomenon better and move forward incrementally. This persistence and perseverance is a hallmark of scientific endeavours together with vigorous debates and discussions of findings.”
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“And it’s not a token affirmative action process, but creating the space for women’s voices to be heard, women to contribute in the context of complex challenges that face us is no longer a luxury – we need all voices heard and opportunities created for all to contribute.”
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“Environments can be created where women feel they belong, and we can see from the 20 years of CAPRISA’s existence how creating a supportive space for women has enabled a lot of women to thrive, to make their contributions and be constantly making cutting-edge contributions. So this is a concrete example. It’s not just rhetoric; it's not idealism that we can make it happen, and we need to illustrate that more and more because that means inclusivity at all levels, which bodes well for human security and planetary health.”
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“We focused on developing and testing technologies that empowered women.”
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“We can’t think of problems in the global south as just problems for the global south.”
Quarraisha Abdool Karim (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source