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b. 1960 South Africa

Quarraisha Abdool Karim (born March 20, 1960) is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and co-founder and Associate Scientific Director of CAPRISA. She is a professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York and Pro-Vice Chancellor for African Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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When we come together with unity of purpose, we can achieve great things.

The vulnerability of young women is very much tied into gender power differences in society.

We can’t think of problems in the global south as just problems for the global south.

We focused on developing and testing technologies that empowered women.

As far as women go, there's a lot more we still need to do.

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.

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.

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Quarraisha Abdool Karim (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.