While RSV can become severe for any child, it poses a particularly serious threat for the youngest babies and for high-risk children.
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When it comes to reducing the spread of COVID, ventilation is often an afterthought. But cleaner air needs to be front and centre of our COVID mitigation strategy. Here’s why.
This is not an alternative to traditional disease surveillance, but a complementary tool.
COVID has shown us we can develop a range of safe and effective vaccines. Now we need to do the same for TB.
The inability to curb road accidents in Ghana is tied to colonial and neocolonial legacies.
Digital participatory surveillance allows the community to share in the responsibility of disease surveillance and contribute to the control and prevention of respiratory disease outbreaks.
Proto-medicines which activated “free fatty acid receptor 4” were able to relax the lungs and airways in both mice and human lung tissue samples.
People living close to mine dumps are more inclined to show symptoms of asthma.
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Medical Epidemiologist at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases and Lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Co-head of the Centre for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Data Manager, Center for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Scientia Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Health
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Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of San Francisco
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Specialist Scientist - Public Health, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor, Science and Engineering Faculty; Director, International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (WHO CC for Air Quality and Health); Director - Australia, Australia – China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management (ACC-AQSM), Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
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Gardiner Professor of Biochemistry and Dean of reserach, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine
