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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=""] Carla has been with Wits VIDA for 10 years and was appointed Operations Manager in 2021. 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Based within the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital (RMMCH), Renate manages an active research unit focused primarily on paediatric HIV treatment, novel drug development, and mother-to child HIV transmission. She has a special interest in paediatric neurodevelopment and has completed her Masters Degree on this topic. Renate participates in the teaching of undergraduate medical students and the supervision of research projects. [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

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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. 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She also holds a joint appointment as lecturer in the School of Pathology at the University of Witwatersrand. Alane received her PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University School of Public Health. In September 2011, she joined Wits VIDA for a post-doctoral fellowship. Alane has served as the primary statistician on observational studies and clinical trials in the unit and has experience in both frequentist and Bayesian methods. She has worked on a number of studies evaluating and analysing the efficacy of vaccines, the immunogenicity following vaccination, seasonal associations of respiratory diseases, impact of treatment programs, modelling infectious diseases over time, and exploring possible candidates for a correlate of protection against invasive GBS disease. 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As part of the clinical team, which she currently leads, Anthonet had been sub-investigator on more than 20 clinical trials ranging from phase I-III, and principal investigator on three. These include trials on pneumococcal, meningococcal, rotavirus, influenza, RSV, group B streptococcus and measles vaccines. She is also the co-author on 14 vaccine-related publications. 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She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health from University College London in United Kingdom; an MSc (Medicine): Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Witwatersrand and BSc (Honors) Biological Sciences. She is an epidemiologist with over 15 years’ experience in public health and infectious disease research and has extensive experience in leading infectious disease research and surveillance systems at local and national level. She has been involved in a number of international expert committees including the WHO expert committee on development of public health emergency operations centers, WHO-International Health Regulations (IHR) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) where she was South Africa’s national co-lead for the disease surveillance stream from 2016-2018. Currently she is board member for Safe In pregnancy, an international committee aimed at improving linkage of active safety surveillance of novel interventions in pregnancy to existing routine maternal, neonatal, and child health data collection systems. Initially her research focused on HIV and TB with a special emphasis on the interaction of HIV, TB and chronic morbidity in the older adult population. She then went on to lead the South Africa national surveillance system for notifiable medical conditions where she spearheaded the re-engineering of the current national surveillance system and was instrumental in implementing the provincial epidemiologist support team to all Provincial Departments of Health across South Africa. Recently she transitioned to focus on pediatric research aimed at understanding morbidity and mortality causes and determining community and household dynamics influencing such morbidity and mortality. Aligned with this work she was principal investigator for the recent national population-based survey that aimed to estimate vaccination coverage, within the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), across all districts in South Africa and to understand barriers to vaccination. Currently she is principal investigator for a number of COVID-19 research studies and surveys. She has co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Dr Mutevedzi has in-depth experience in supervising post-graduate students as well as mentoring junior researchers. She lectures for the MSc Vaccinology programme under the African Leadership in Vaccinology Expertise, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

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With a passion for communication and connecting, she has a diverse network spanning industries and regions, and experience in both the private and third sector. At the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA) she provides organisational leadership and support to the Executive Director, Professor Madhi, to deliver the strategic objectives of the Faculty of Health Sciences through Wits Health Consortium. She manages a staff compliment of 350 which includes the data unit, laboratory, clinics across multiple sites, the regulatory and ethics department as well as unit operations. Catherine also oversees financial, contracts and management for clinical research activities (epidemiological studies and clinical trials) and this includes Dedicated project management and national research coordination of key studies for the unit, including COVID-19 vaccine trials (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and Novavax) . Catherine’s involvement in the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine trial (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) includes national coordination across seven clinical trial sites including financial, contracts, project management and regulatory oversight. Catherine thrives on challenges that combine strategic business and brand development with long-term impact, purpose and relevance. Catherine also co-founded the annual Johannesburg Afro-Latin Festival and is a Director of Candela Jozi Dance Company and the Johannesburg School of Samba. She has held the role of facilitator for the Gordon Institute of Business Science’s Spirit of Youth programme and is a member of several educational support Trusts. 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style_type="none" sep_color="" 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 Marta C. Nunes is a reader and associate Professor at the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics (VIDA) Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand. Marta developed her PhD thesis work in Professor S Goldman’s laboratory at the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA and obtained her PhD from the University of Lisbon, Medical College, Lisbon, Portugal in January 2004. During her PhD training she isolated and described a very unique multipotential neural progenitor cell population from the subcortical white matter of the adult human brain. At the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, during her EMBO and Human Frontiers post-doctoral fellowships, Marta was involved in several projects dedicated to identifying new malaria vaccine candidates for pregnancy malaria. And after her post-doctoral training at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France in 2009 (where she developed different projects aimed at understanding the cell biology of Plasmodium falciparum and to identify molecular candidates for malaria vaccines for pregnant women) Marta moved to South Africa. The focus of her research with Wits VIDA has been on the interaction of different putative pathogens on respiratory disease in children and the different manifestations in health and disease to these infections. To approach the problem of infant morbidity and mortality related to infections she is exploring the potential of intervening through vaccination of pregnant women to protect the women and their babies against infections. This also includes the evaluation of this intervention in reducing adverse birth outcomes. 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Suzett Fourie

Suzett Fourie

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Carla Gouws

Carla Gouws

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Dr Renate Strehlau

Dr Renate Strehlau

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Dr Courtney Olwagen

Dr Courtney Olwagen

2021-04-13T12:10:55+02:0002 Mar 2021|

Dr Alane Izu

Dr Alane Izu

2021-04-13T12:13:53+02:0002 Mar 2021|

Dr Vicky Lynne Baillie

Dr Vicky Lynne Baillie

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Dr Gaurav Kwatra

Dr Gaurav Kwatra

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Anthonet Koen

Anthonet Koen

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Dr Portia Mutevedzi

Dr Portia Mutevedzi

2021-08-04T11:46:26+02:0001 Mar 2021|

Catherine Hill

Catherine Hill

2021-05-10T10:20:28+02:0001 Mar 2021|

Dr Marta Nunes

Dr Marta Nunes

2021-05-10T10:20:39+02:0001 Mar 2021|

Prof. Shabir A. Madhi

Prof. Shabir A. Madhi

2022-02-28T14:45:31+02:0001 Mar 2021|

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3 weeks 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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Wits VIDA

3 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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Wits VIDA

3 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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4 months ago

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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4 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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4 months ago

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

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Wits VIDA

5 months ago

Today is International day of women and girls in science! We celebrate all the #WomenInStem around the world making a difference each day through pioneering #medicalresearch. witshealthfac ... See MoreSee Less

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At Wits VIDA our staff don't just 'Make Life Count' they look good doing it too! #scrubs #healthcareheroes #medicalresearch Wits Faculty of Health Sciences ... See MoreSee Less

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WATCH: More voices are calling for an end to the National State of Disaster.In March 2020 President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. For almost two years it has been extended over and over again. But medical experts say most of the measures in place are unfit to deal with South Africa's fight against COVID-19 right now.youtu.be/AvTqkU12JCQ ... See MoreSee Less

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WATCH: Lockdowns DON'T work. Prof Shabir Madhi spoke to David Ansara of the CRA about why lockdowns don't work and why the state of disaster should be ended in South Africa. Wits Faculty of Health Sciences Wits - University of the Witwatersrand #lockdown2022 #medicalresearch #COVID19 t.co/bRQpmVKclB ... See MoreSee Less

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