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.