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Heather Zar is Professor and Chair within the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Red Cross Children’s Hospital and also Director of the South African Medical Research Council’s Unit on Child & Adolescent Health, one of the organisation’s extramural research units which is housed at the University of Cape Town, since 2015. Her work, focused on childhood pneumonia, tuberculosis, asthma and HIV-associated disease has had global impact on strategies for diagnosis, prevention and treatment. She’s established a novel African birth cohort study, the Drakenstein Child Health study to investigate the early life determinants of child health. An NRF-A1 rated scientist, she’s developed a strong clinical translational research program, establishing several clinical research sites, building a core clinical research facility, attracting substantial funding from international grant agencies and mentoring several postgraduate students. A key advocate for child health in Africa and globally, she’s served as President of the Pan African Thoracic Society, past president of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies, and in an advisory capacity to the World Health Organisation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prof Zar has many accolades under her name – to mention a few: she received the World Lung Health award from the American Thoracic Society in 2014, the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Laureate for Africa/Arabia in 2018 and the President’s Award from the International Congress in Pediatric Pulmonology in 2019 for a “Lifetime of seminal contributions that will impact generations to come and for embodying a role model for the paediatric pulmonary community worldwide”. She has and continues to mentor many postgraduate students (PhD, post-docs) most of whom are funded by the SAMRC its Research Capacity Development.