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South Africa

South Africa
Physicians

Also known as: Heather J Zar

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My hope is that it helps shine a spotlight on this relatively under resourced area of research.

There’s a lack of knowledge about the burden of childhood illnesses even though children make up 37 percent of our population.

I was always very interested in the potential public health impact.

Much childhood death and illness is preventable.

The study showed that it's common, with prevalence rates that are often higher than global rates.

Despite children being a third of the population, child health is relatively underfunded and underresourced.

The mother’s health, both physical and psychological, factors like depression and anxiety.

It’s a key issue to get these products to low and middle income countries (LMICs).

Translational research is the bridge between clinical and basic science research.

Following them through pregnancy, through childbirth, and now we are following the children who are turning 11 years old.

Improving access to affordable, effective interventions globally is vital.

We wanted to look very broadly to understand why some children get ill.

Mothers who smoke in pregnancy have children who are smaller, children who have more lung disease, children who are less healthy.

There’s so much respiratory disease and there’s so much to be done.

The big question in the project is, what makes for a healthy child?

Why some children are healthy children from the same communities.

I wanted to be in an area in which you could turn things around.

We enrolled pregnant women, moms in these peri urban poor areas.

In pulmonology, there’s a lot of immediate change oxygen, antibiotics, those sorts of interventions, plus interventions on a longer timeframe.

Children are so seldom prioritised on the health agenda.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Heather Zar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.