Dr. Shannon Cawood

Shannon Cawood is a South African clinician-researcher in paediatric critical care, affiliated with Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and involved in national collaborative research initiatives. Her work spans tertiary intensive care practice and large-scale surveillance collaborations, contributing to evidence generation in resource-limited health systems.

Her research focuses on paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome, mechanical ventilation strategies, and outcomes of critically ill children managed both داخل and outside formal intensive care units. She has examined the impact of constrained ICU capacity on child survival, highlighting disparities in access to advanced respiratory support and the need to optimise high-care services.

Cawood has also contributed to influential national cohort studies on COVID-19, HIV, and tuberculosis through the DATCOV surveillance platform, helping clarify risk factors for in-hospital mortality in high-burden settings. Across her publications, strengths include multicentre collaboration, clinically grounded epidemiology, and a commitment to improving critical care delivery in low-resource contexts.