
Farah Qamar
@farahqamar11
Associate Dean, AKUH, Professor of Paediatric Infectious Disease at @AKUPaedtrics at @AKUGlobal | Visiting Prof. @UniofOxford
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10-08-2020 09:22:11
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Farah Qamar OUCRU Sonia Qureshi OuCru A discussion on the challenges of the follow-up for the blood samples in the trial. Farah Qamar mentions Ramazan is a challenge as people don’t want to give blood until after the fast. So the team plans around it.


Drug resistance is a growing global health concern🦠#Vaccineswork against drug resistant #typhoid and other pathogens - learn more from a recent World Economic Forum article: weforum.org/agenda/2024/01…


Recent data from #Malawi show longer term efficacy of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs)! #VaccinesWork to #TakeOnTyphoid: coalitionagainsttyphoid.org/tcv-protects-f… Ministry of Health, Malawi UMSOM Center for Vaccine Dev. & Global Health Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme


Massive credit and kudos to Priyanka Patel, the diligent dynamo behind this important result, online in the Lancet today. Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines give durable protection for at least 4 years, across all age-groups from 9 months to 12 years old. thelancet.com/journals/lance…


"If you were putting Xynosine drops in my nose, even I'd be screaming." The secret to managing parents dealing with screaming congested kids. Snippet from Fatima Mir's talk at The Kidney Center

Now that’s a pic 3 alumni and 3 chairs who represent at least 300+ faculty. Talk about support from the top Zainab Samad Saleem Islam Fyezah Jehan 👩🏻‍💻🇵🇰


NEW study from The Lancet Global Health on incidence of #typhoid fever across six African countries! Findings demonstrate the need for implementation of effective typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) along with measures to improve clean water, sanitation, and hygiene practices (#WASH)đź’§đź’‰


Our Typhoid hunter Farah Qamar is at The Royal Society talking about how the evidence was generated for antibiotic resistant typhoid in Pakistan which led to the introduction of the vaccine to the EPI. Perfect timing, doc! It’s World Immunization Week. 💉



First talk of the afternoon session is from BactiVac Network Scientific Advisory Board chair Richard Adegbola & Farah Qamar from Aga Khan University on #pneumococcal & #typhoid vaccine AMR impact #BactiVacEvents #AMR Global Health Security, DHSC UK Wellcome Medical Research Council IGI Birmingham @unibirm_MDS Microbiology Society

She's double-trouble ProfSquared! Prof Farah Qamar of AKU Paediatrics has been appointed Visiting Professor of Paediatric Infectious Disease at the University of Oxford for teaching and research for 3 years.


Political will, collaboration between partners, and critical investment in social mobilization are key takeaways from the #typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign in #Malawi! Read more in our brief about how this rollout can inform future integrated campaigns💉 coalitionagainsttyphoid.org/wp-content/upl…

NEW: Study on the efficacy of #typhoid vaccines published by The Lancet Global Health💉 According to findings, roll-out of typhoid conjugate vaccines into routine immunisation programmes in typhoid endemic settings is highly recommended thelancet.com/journals/langl… Farah Qamar RababBatool


