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"The big question in the project is, what makes for a healthy child?"
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Heather Zar"Improving access to affordable, effective interventions globally is vital."
Heather J Zar is a South African physician and scientist specialising in the care of children with respiratory diseases like asthma, tuberculosis and pneumonia.
"The big question in the project is, what makes for a healthy child?"
"I was always very interested in the potential public health impact."
"In pulmonology, there’s a lot of immediate change oxygen, antibiotics, those sorts of interventions, plus interventions on a longer timeframe."
"Much childhood death and illness is preventable."
"My hope is that it helps shine a spotlight on this relatively under resourced area of research."
"There’s so much respiratory disease and there’s so much to be done."