Pediatricians

"Paediatrics is about creating better futures."

"This is where children are dying from RSV."

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

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

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

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

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

"Improving access to affordable, effective interventions globally is vital."

"Much childhood death and illness is preventable."

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

"Children are so seldom prioritised on the health agenda."

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

"More funding and capacity development are needed to strengthen child health programmes."

"Child health has been worsening over the past 20 years in South Africa."

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

"The implementation of findings into practice and public health including policy and guidelines."

"The study will hopefully provide valuable information to identify new interventions for improving child health."

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

"There was a misconception that asthma is rare in African children."

"Conventional practice was that TB was difficult to confirm in children."

"“I would not have succeeded in my career had it not been for my husband,”says a very appreciative Adhikari."

"She achieved a lot. She was a very determined individual whose priorities were her patients and the children."

"It's impossible for me to say what happens after the inauguration," she says. "This campaign has been planned for more than a year; it's coming out now."

"I started my pediatric residency program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in 1983,"That was before the HiB vaccine came out, which protects against a bacteria called Haemophilus Influenzae Type B. "We used to see so many children with very serious bacterial infections due to this bacteria — pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis. And after the vaccines came out and had been given for a number of years, we really no longer see those infections."

"The language of medicine and science is being used to drive people to suicide. The mantle of concern for children is being claimed to destroy children's lives. We have to take a firmer stand on behalf of those who are being hurt."

"Aims, methods, and persistency, are common to the medical profession of all countries. On its flag is inscribed what should be the life rule of all nations: Fraternity and solidarity."

"When you come into a place, it is really important to see people who are achieving things,” Professor Osier said. “If you come into a place where people are dead wood, however brilliant you may be, you are going to become dead wood yourself."

"It makes me appreciate the community that transformed a little girl growing up in Kenya into an international award-winning scientist."

"here’s a toast to you."

"This award helps to put African science and scientists firmly on the map. We can bring positive and meaningful change to our communities through effective research, innovation and leadership."

"I inspire women in science all over the world, and more so in Africa."

"I feel the urgency with dealing with these [infectious disease] problems because I have experienced them up close."

"The closest comparison I can give is with COVID-19. When it hit Western countries, we all felt it: the pain of lockdown; of losing someone; of being ill ourselves. We felt that urgency, that we needed a vaccine and we needed it yesterday, so we said, ‘let's do it, let's do everything that we can’. For diseases that are far off, that sense of urgency is lost."

"The journey towards the development of a malaria vaccine is bumpy. It involves understanding highly evolved parasites that can replicate while hidden within the cells of their hosts."

"The second angle of our research aims to understand how the immune system handles the complexity of the malaria parasite. For example, if it produces antibodies, we need to identify the parasite proteins to which the antibodies are binding and the mechanisms they are using. To do this, we probe the parasite with antibodies from people who have developed resistance to malaria parasite."

"I joined the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in 1998 as a junior doctor and was interested in training in paediatrics. It was here that I was introduced to research on malaria in general, and begun to understand that we know so little about this disease that has been with humans for such a long time."

"I had three late miscarriages and one early and that took a long while to recover from. Some women have children with serious disabilities."

"As a woman who wants to have a rounded life, you will want children at some point. You have to accept that you enjoy all that comes with having children which will have a cost on how far your career can go."

"I am a reluctant clinician."

"If you go to a region with a lot of malaria, you find that only the children get seriously sick and the adults are basically immune. I wanted to understand the process that makes adults immune to malaria."

"As you move up it becomes harder because you’ll be distracted by dramas and sideshows, but remember that they’re not the main story."

"whatever you have in your hand to do, if you give it your whole heart and all your energy, it will give you a lot of dividends."

"Malaria still claims the lives of hundreds of thousands of children each year and has a major economic impact on the lives of many in sub-Saharan Africa. Children that survive severe malaria can be left with permanent physical disability that takes many forms."

"My average day has evolved over the years as I have graduated from being a junior to a more senior researcher. Earlier on, I’d spend a lot of time in the laboratory generating data and less time in the office reading scientific literature, analysing data and writing up my work."

"I try to understand how adults in Africa learn to live in harmony with the parasite responsible for malaria, such that infections do not make them ill. This knowledge could help us design vaccines that would protect children, who can die as a result of a malaria infection."

"The fact that people are developing immunity to malaria all around me – I feel that this process is staring me in the face- if you like, and I must be able to see and understand how it is happening."

"When will we have a malaria vaccine"

"The Wellcome Trust has been instrumental to getting me established as a credible African research scientist. I competed and won a training fellowship that supported my PhD studies. My current work is supported by an intermediate fellowship, and this has enabled me to compete successfully for an MRC/DFID African Research Leader award."

"Separating children from their parents contradicts everything we stand for as pediatricians — protecting and promoting children's health ..."

"Over a span of two weeks, AAP President Colleen A. Kraft, M.D., M.B.A., FAAP, and other pediatrician experts were featured in more than 60 national and regional news outlets covering the crisis at the border. They had a consistent message: Family separation causes irreparable harm to child health, and detention is no place for a child. Amid advocacy and outcry from pediatricians, advocates and the public, President Donald Trump issued an executive order in June that sought to end the administration’s policy of separating children and parents at the border."