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She holds a B-Com (Honors) in Business Management, a B-Tech degree in Project Management and Marketing. She is a result driven professional with 10+ years in office management, supervision, administration, procurement and streamlining operations. Her role and responsibility include overseeing the efficient running of Wits VIDA operations including the implementation and review of operational policies, processes and procedures as guided by WHC and other key stakeholders. Having worked with various NGOs such as the University of the Witwatersrand Centre for Rural Health (WCRH)) for South Africa, Sustainable Response to HIV/AIDS (SA-SURE) under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Mamonyooe subscribes to a culture of good corporate governance and ethics in the work place. She drove operations at the TB in the Mining Sector in Southern Africa project of the WHC as an Office Manager for more than five years. 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She has more than 15 years’ experience in the field of infectious diseases and vaccinology, including conduct of clinical vaccine trials, respiratory and diarrhoeal disease surveillance programmes and observational studies assessing vaccine impact, effectiveness, immunogenicity, and safety in South Africa. She qualified as a medical doctor at the University of the Witwatersrand and has a Diploma in Child Health. She obtained a Master of Science in Medicine (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and a PhD in Public Health from the University of the Witwatersrand. Michelle holds a joint appointment as Senior Researcher, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, where she lectures and supervises post-graduate students. She previously led the diarrhoeal disease portfolio at the SAMRC: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit. Important public health contributions include providing the first rotavirus vaccine effectiveness data from Africa which was pivotal to inform public health decisions and provide evidence for sustained use of this vaccine in low and middle-income countries and evaluating safety and immunogenicity of a novel injectable subunit rotavirus vaccine in South Africa. Dr Groome has over 70 publications in local and international peer-reviewed journals and is a regular presenter at local and international conferences. She has received several awards including the Emerging Global Leader Award from the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (2016), and the South African Medical Research Council Scientific Merit Award (2017). She has a South African National Research Foundation C1 rating. [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

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As a researcher, Ziyaad completed his doctoral thesis on the clinical and immunological epidemiology of Group B Streptococcus disease at the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (now VIDA). In addition, his research interests include childhood TB and sequelae of lung disease in young infants. Ziyaad have undertaken investigator-initiated, original research using a range of clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory-based research techniques to establish a successful research output, including the publication of cited papers in high-impact factor journals in the field. Ziyaad is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at the University of Witwatersrand. He serves on the executive committee of the South African Paediatric Association and is an examiner in the College of Paediatricians of South Africa. He is also an instructor with the Advanced Paediatric Life Support Group. 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ALIVE was selected as the flagship entity for the University of the Witwatersrand in 2016, and aims to create African expertise and leadership in vaccinology training, research and advocacy. She has established and coordinates the MSc(Med) in the field of vaccinology at Wits, and the 10-day African advanced vaccinology short course. Prior to her appointment in ALIVE (Nov 2018), she was a research medical officer and subsequently the deputy director of the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (RMPRU, now Wits-VIDA), based at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital (CHBAH), Soweto, South Africa (2000-2018). She was an investigator on numerous phase I, II and III paediatric and maternal vaccine trials and principal investigator on a phase II paediatric measles vaccine trial, a phase III quadrivalent influenza vaccine trial in children and a phase III maternal influenza immunization trial in HIV-positive women. Clare Cutland was the clinical lead for several large grant-funded neonatal sepsis prevention (PoPS, sepsis surveillance) and maternal immunization studies (influenza, Streptococcus agalactiae / Group B streptococcus sero-correlate of protection) and an investigator on numerous maternal immunization trials (GBS, RSV), and has published on challenges and lessons learnt in maternal immunization trials. She is national coordinator for the Oxford-AZ COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa (April 2020 – current), and is a sub-investigator on Oxford-Astra Zeneca- and Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trials She was involved in the GAIA Brighton collaboration definition working groups (2014-2016), and was elected as a member of the scientific board of the Brighton collaboration in 2018 (to present). She is a member of the Wits Institutional biosafety committee and working group for maternal COVID-19 vaccines. Clare is author or co-author on over 117 peer-reviewed journal articles. 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He is the director of the Pneumonia program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and leads the foundation’s work to reduce deaths from pneumonia, neonatal sepsis, and meningitis in children. Keith is a past president of the International Society of Infectious Diseases and a past chair of the International Board of the American Society for Microbiology. In 2015, he was elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine in the United States. He has chaired or served on numerous expert committees for the World Health Organization (WHO), The Wellcome Trust and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is the Emeritus William H. Foege chair of Global Health at the Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. As an MD and PhD specializing in infectious diseases and microbiology, Keith has made major contributions in the field of pneumococcal research, including antimicrobial resistance. 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She qualified with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) in 2007 from University of Karachi and Maters in Public Health (Epidemiology) from University of Cape Town, in 2015, and is currently a PhD candidate at University of Cape Town. Her research focus with Wits VIDA is on HIV-associated complications and comorbidities in youth with perinatally acquired HIV on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa and reducing under 5 years mortality from leading causes of death. Sana has presented at local and international conferences her research outputs. Her current responsibility includes planning, implementation and management of the surveillance and epidemiological trials, mainly in under 5 population to get better identifying and understanding the causes of death, and preparation of research outputs from the research studies. She has experience in protocol development, implementing trials and statistical analysis. 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She is a sociologist by training and obtained her Bachelor of Social Sciences (Sociology) in 1999 and Masters of Arts (Sociology of Health) Degrees at the University of Malawi and later completed her PhD (Sociology) at the University of South Africa. For the past 20 years she has been working in the field of social science conducting research in various areas of interest including: social, cultural, and economic issues; health (HIV and AIDS, TB; sexual reproductive health and rights; maternal and child health); youth; gender based violence; gender equity and empowerment; socio-economic development; malnutrition; international migration; human rights; social justice; political participation of women, urbanization; and many more. Her research interests include: gender (including equity, empowerment, and gender based violence issues), social development and policy, culture, maternal and child health, child malnutrition, vaccine acceptancy, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, agriculture and development, migration, human rights and social justice. Her research specialisation is quantitative, qualitative, anthropological, ethnographical, and participatory research. At Wits VIDA, Nellie provides social science methodological advice on a number of projects which are currently being undertaken including the Child Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Programme. 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animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""] About [/fusion_title][fusion_text columns="" column_min_width="" column_spacing="" rule_style="default" rule_size="" rule_color="" content_alignment_medium="" content_alignment_small="" content_alignment="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" sticky_display="normal,sticky" class="" id="" font_size="" fusion_font_family_text_font="" fusion_font_variant_text_font="" line_height="" letter_spacing="" text_color="" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""] Dr Courtney Olwagen is a senior research scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA) of the University of the Witwatersrand. She has been involved in clinical microbiology and infectious disease research for the past 10 years, with a specific focus on reducing under-5 childhood morbidity and mortality. She is the principal investigator on a project that is evaluating the association of HIV infection and density of nasopharyngeal bacterial colonizers in PCV-immunised children and is the co-principal investigator on a grant-funded project investigating the temporal changes of drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. Her work on pneumococcal disease also encompasses a molecular diagnostic program for Streptococcus pneumonia in which she is the lead scientist. As part of this work, Courtney has developed a nanofluidic assay that can simultaneously detect 90 different pneumococcal serotypes together with other common bacterial and viral respiratory pathogens. The development of this assay has allowed the unit to serotype pneumococcus in several ongoing projects including a clinical trial that is investigating pneumococcal colonisation in children receiving different schedules of different PCV vaccine formulations. To better understand the interaction of different pathogens causing disease in children, Courtney’s research portfolio also includes studies that are investigating the maternal vaginal microbiome composition that is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes (including neonatal deaths and stillbirths) and a longitudinal study of the nasopharyngeal microbiome in infants with lower respiratory tract infections. Further, she is the co-principal investigator on a grant-funded study that is applying next-generation sequencing to identify pathogens causing infection-related neonatal deaths and stillbirths. During her time at Wits VIDA, Courtney’s work has resulted in numerous publications as well as presentations at both international and local conferences. She is the recipient of the Robert Austrian research award and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. She has also reviewed publications for several different scientific journals. 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Congratulations to VIDA Ph.D. Research Fellow in Vaccinology, William McMahon on winning the Best Student Oral Presentation in Clinical Sciences and Therapeutics for Health at this year's Wits - University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences Research Day!"My presentation focussed on T cell responses induced by the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine in response to wild-type SARS-CoV-2 (ancestral virus) among people living with and without HIV in South Africa. Results presented (although not yet published) belong to a sub-study allocated to my Ph.D. research project in Vaccinology which broadly aims to investigate cell-mediated immunity induced by Covid-19 vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 infection. This sub-study forms part of the main Covid-19 vaccine trial (COV005) conducted at Wits VIDA which assessed the safety and immunogenicity of AZD1222 in people living with and without HIV in South Africa. Results of the main trial have been published in Lancet HIV (DOI: doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(21)00157-0)" ... See MoreSee Less

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Witsies Tamiru Abiye, Professor of Hydrogeology in Geosciences; Sehliselo ‘Selo’ Ndlovu, Professor of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering and DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Hydrometallurgy and Sustainable Development; and Shabir Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology and Dean of Health Sciences (all pictured below left to right) won the Researcher, Capacity Development, and Lifetime Achievement awards respectively at the 2021/2022 NSTF-South32 Awards, the 'Science Oscars'. Read their inspiring stories of research for good here: bit.ly/3zDXk3j ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

Congratulations Prof Madhi!Congratulations to Prof. Shabir Madhi the Dean of the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences for winning the @NSTF_SA Lifetime Achievement Award!Madhi is a Professor of Vaccinology at Wits as well as Director of the SA Medical Research Council Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (Wits-VIDA), and Co-Director of African Leadership in Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE) at Wits.A National Research Foundation A-rated scientist and a paediatrician, Madhi’s research has focused on the epidemiology and clinical development of vaccines against pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease. These studies have informed World Health Organization recommendations on the use of the lifesaving pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and rotavirus vaccine in children, and flu vaccination of pregnant women. Madhi led South Africa and Africa’s first Covid-19 vaccine trials (Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax Covid-19 vaccine). ... See MoreSee Less

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3 months ago

Happening today! Webinar with Prof Shabir Madhi on the Changing face of the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa. Register here: saimmunology.org.za/webinars.html ... See MoreSee Less

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5 months ago

“COVID-19 had a huge impact on household income and the ability to feed children. What makes it even worse, is the fact that children couldn’t go to school to get nutritional supplements. Some of these children depend on these school meals in the absence of any breakfast,” - Dr Portia Mutevedzi shared research by Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS), locally led by Wits VIDA.Wits - University of the WitwatersrandRead more here: health-e.org.za/2022/04/06/obesity-stunting-on-the-rise-among-sas-children/ ... See MoreSee Less

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6 months ago

ICYMI: Prof Glenda Gray and Prof Shabir Madhi react to the latest COVID-19 regulations.wits-vida.org/blog/new-masks-regulations-met-with-mixed-reactions/ ... See MoreSee Less

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Wits VIDA leads a Vaccine Information Network (VIN) project that will assess Covid-19 vaccine acceptance in SA and Zimbabwe with the goal of better informing efforts to promote vaccination in these two countries. Dean of Health Sciences Professor Shabir Madhi is the Principal Investigator and Dr Janan Dietrich (pictured), of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, will lead the project in SA through a partnership with Wits VIDA, under the auspices of the African Social Sciences Unit of Research and Evaluation (ASSURE). Joining Wits in the project consortium are Columbia University in the USA, RTI International, Charles River Medical Group in Zimbabwe, the Rhodes Trust based at the University of Oxford, the Atlantic Institute, and the Schmidt Science Fellows.Together, this consortium comprises the Vaccine Information Network (VIN), part of the VacSafe Working Group at Columbia University.VIN is funded by Schmidt Futures, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Aspen Pharmacare. t.co/RYhN1HU4Y5 ... See MoreSee Less

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7 months ago

Prof Shabir Madhi spoke to eNCA regarding the growing concern among some South Africans about the recently published side effects of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine. The documents in question stem from Pfizer’s clinical trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration. Wits Faculty of Health Sciences ... See MoreSee Less

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7 months ago

COVID-19 measures that don't serve a purpose should be dropped - Prof Madhi ... See MoreSee Less

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