Her current focus is on the development of probiotic products targeted at the treatment of bacterial vaginosis.īA, MPH, PhD (Epidemiology). Research interests: Production testing of microbial products including culturing, formulation, drying and shelf-life testing. His work is funded by the SA MRC, SA NRF, EU FP7, EDCTP and NIH.īSc (Chem) Eng UCT, PhD Cantab Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research (CeBER), Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, UCT. His group’s main research interests are the study of pulmonary regulatory immunological pathways in relation to infection, rapid and field-friendly diagnosis of tuberculosis, and drug-resistant tuberculosis.
He holds an honorary faculty position at UCL. Keertan Dheda (MBBCh (Wits), FCP (SA), FCCP, PhD (Lond)) is Head of the Lung Infection and Immunity Unit and Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine (SARChI), Division of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town. Research interests: HIV cohort and infectious disease epidemiology operations research on service responses for priority health conditions data harmonisation and linkage and context-appropriate health information systems development. Division of Public Health Medicine and Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER), School of Public Health and Family Medicine Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa), Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine Health Impact Assessment directorate, Department of Health, Provincial Government of the Western Cape. The current focus also includes the functional composition of the human microbiome, including the resistome of the gastro-intestinal tract and the heart-GUT axis. Research interests: The clinical and molecular epidemiology of antibiotic-resistant infections the mechanisms of resistance as a confounder in antibiotic stewardship the design and implementation of large-scale antibiotic stewardship and infection prevention and control interventions in low- and middle-income countries.
MBChB, MMed (Med Micro), Chair and Head of the Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, and National Health Laboratory Services, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town. Affiliate membership is for researchers based at UCT, elsewhere than in the IDM complex, who seek supplementary membership of the IDM because their research interests align with the general focus and current activity areas of the IDM, for three-year terms, which are renewable.
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