Jana Pavare, Dr. (Med.), is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Riga Stradins University (Riga, Latvia). She is also currently working as a deputy head of the Clinic of Paediatrics at the Children's Clinical University Hospital. The focus of her research is on pediatric infectious diseases, with a special interest in the diagnosis of severe bacterial infections and sepsis in children. Another research focus is parental concern and healthcare-seeking behavior, as well as the clinician’s gut feeling when treating children with febrile illnesses and, currently, also the research performed in primary care settings on antimicrobial treatment habits in children with infections, and the effect of a multifactorial intervention on them. She was a leading researcher in the EU HORIZON 2020 project: "Personalized risk assessment in febrile illness to optimize real-life management across the European Union" (PERFORM) from 2016 to 2019, the leading researcher at all three parts of the State Program in Research of Latvia "Biomedicine for public health". She is currently the leading researcher on the EU Horizon 2020 project “Diagnosis and management of febrile illness using RNA personalized molecular signature diagnosis”. J. Pavare is a Chief Specialist in Pediatrics in the Healthcare Ministry of Latvia.