Preventing TB in children in South Africa

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (high schools and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 biology and health.

It can also be used as a careers resource (medicine) and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr James Seddon, a clinician scientist who divides his time between St Mary’s Hospital and Imperial College London in the UK and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In hospital, James works as a paediatrician treating children with infectious diseases. At the universities, James is conducting a clinical trial to test whether a new drug will prevent children from developing TB.

• This resource also contains an interview with James and offers an insight into careers as a clinician scientist.

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on James’s research and challenges them to investigate a disease and design a clinical trial to test a new medical treatment to prevent it.

• An animation about James’s work and accompanying PowerPoint are available from the Futurum Careers website.