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Clinical characteristics, treatment and outcomes of paediatric COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis Archives of Disease in Childhood Omar Irfan, Fiona Muttalib, Kun Tang, Li Jiang, Zohra S Lassi and Zulfiqar Bhutta February 2021 This article has received over 160 academic citations, and had 16 citations in policy documents and clinical guidelines. See the full details below. Journal: Authors: Publication date:
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Let’s hear from Zulfiqar Bhutta, University of Toronto, about this 2021 article published in Archives of Disease in Childhood “Open access publications were key to information sharing during the pandemic and should be the norm moving forward with mechanisms that enable scientists from LMICs to publish their findings.”
Professor Zulfiqar A Bhutta is the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health & Policy at the Centre for Global Child Health, University of Toronto and the Distinguished University Professor and Founding Director of its Institute for Global Health & Development at the Aga Khan University, unique joint appointments.
What inspired you to pursue research in this particular area?
At the time when COVID spread across the world in record time with uncertainty and chaos, there were scant early reports on infections in children and respective outcomes, including the spectre of multi- system inflammatory syndrome (MISC) that was beginning to rear its head. With limited funding and no clear direction from global agencies, we established a voluntary working group on COVID-19 in women and children with the explicit purpose of collating and synthesizing evidence for policy and action. As it emerged some of our earlier findings on varying severity and outcomes related to COVID-19 infections in children in low- and middle-income countries were prescient in terms of what eventually emerged from several subsequent studies.
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How do you envision your research contributing to the broader field or addressing real-world issues? This was a global emergency of an unprecedented scale and severity and is unlikely to be the last. Our experience and publications, underscore the importance of preparedness and open scientific enquiry to guide policy. We were able to garner the support and collaborative work from a wide range of young researchers. Perhaps in the future there could be more rapid response and funded projects around global health emergencies affecting families and children. What do you see as the benefits of open access publishing compared to traditional publishing models? Knowledge access and dissemination is key to research efforts and the fact that our work found its way to many national policies and response strategies was also related to its ready availability in LMICs. Open access publications were key to information sharing during the pandemic and should be the norm moving forward with mechanisms that enable scientists from LMICs to publish their findings. What advice would you give to other researchers who are considering publishing their work in open access formats for the first time? Please prioritize open access and high impact journals if you want to reach those who matter and have impact.
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“Open access publications were key to information sharing during the pandemic and should be the norm moving forward with mechanisms that enable scientists from LMICs to publish their findings.” Professor Zulfiqar A Bhutta University of Toronto
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