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SYMPOSIUM A: Lancet Global Health Symposium

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Friday, June 27, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Hall: Barcelona A

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Access to Pulse Oximetry and Oxygen for Children Launch of the Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen Security


Speaker

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Ms Zoë Mullan
Editor
The Lancet Global Health

Welcome

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Zoƫ Mullan is Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal The Lancet Global Health and Inclusion & Diversity Lead for The Lancet Group. She is an Ex-Officio Board Member of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health and a Scientific Advisory Board member of the Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. Between 2013 and 2017 she was a Council Member and Trustee of the Committee on Publication Ethics. She trained in Biochemistry at the University of Bath, UK, before joining the publishing industry in 1997 as a Scientific Information Officer with CABI. She moved to The Lancet in 1999, where she has worked since, variously as a technical editor, section editor, and founding editor of The Lancet Global Health.
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Dr Eric McCollum
Johns Hopkins School Of Medicine

Pulse Oximetry and Child Health

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Dr. Eric D. McCollum, MD, MPH is the director of the Johns Hopkins Global Program in Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, an Associate Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology in the Eudowood Division of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of International Health. He has nearly 20 years of clinical and research experience in child respiratory diseases specific to low-and middle-income countries in southern Africa and South Asia, has authored >140 peer-reviewed publications, and advises the World Health Organization in multiple capacities in the area of pediatric respiratory diseases.
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Assoc Prof Carina King
Princpal Researcher
Karolinska Institutet

Acute Oxygen Access and Children

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Associate Professor Carina King is an Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist, based at the Department of Global Public Health at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Her research focus is paediatric pneumonia diagnosis, treatment and management - particularly the role of pulse oximetry and oxygen systems. She is the co-leading author of the Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen Security. Prof. King got her PhD from Imperial College London, and has worked in several countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Europe.
Dr Karen Czischke

Long-term Oxygen Therapy and Children

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Audience Q&A

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Closing with Patient Testimony

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Moderators

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Heather Zar
Chair, Dept Paediatrics & Child Health
University of Cape Town

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