Education&ScienceAwards

APSR / Peter Sly Paediatric Lung Disease Young Investigator Award

Dr Sly is a world leader and mentor in paediatric lung research and an APSR champion, being the Director at the Children’s Health and Environment Programme and Director at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Children’s Health and Environment. Dr Sly is the chairman of the board of directors for the Pacific Basin Consortium for the Environment and Health and currently serves on international advisory boards and committees, including: WHO Public Health and Environment; WHO network of Collaborating Centres in Children’s Environmental Health; Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, Canada; and the Infant Lung Health Study, Paarl, South Africa.

This award is generously provided by Dr Sly for the advancement of paediatric respirology by an APSR Young Investigator from an Asia-Pacific LMIC* who is presenting original work at the APSR Congress. It serves to spur on the next generation of paediatric lung disease researchers.

The winning abstract is selected by the APSR, supported by the APSR Paediatric Lung Disease Assembly, which ranks the abstracts for their novelty, importance, methodology, clarity and overall quality. A consensus on the best (eligible) paediatric abstract is then obtained through a rigorous judging system.

Dr Sly

The Award

  • US$500 (jointly funded by Dr Sly and the APSR)
  • A commemorative certificate
  • Invitation to the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) for the award ceremony

The Awardee

  • Must be an APSR member (en bloc or individual).
  • Must be aged ≤40 at the start of the Congress
  • Must normally reside in the Asia-Pacific, in a country or region that is an LMIC*
  • Must be the First Author and able to present the abstract at the Congress
  • Cannot win multiple awards at the same APSR Congress (except the Respirology Case Reports Poster Award), nor have other travel support for the same APSR Congress.
  • Must register for the Congress before their individual “cut-off date”.
    The cut-off date will be provided in the acceptance letter sent by the Local Congress Secretariat. This date will be earlier than the usual registration deadline, to enable the programme schedule to be compiled and awards to be considered.

* LMIC:A country with a Low-, Lower-Middle, or Upper Middle-Income economy
HIC:A country with a High-Income economy
Lists of LMICs and HICs can be seen at worldbank.org/…