Institution

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Based in

South Africa , Durban

Languages

English

Short Bio

Sabiha Essack is the South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Antibiotic Resistance and One Health and Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). She is the co-chair of the Quadripartite Technical Group on Integrated Surveillance and serves as the Senior Implementation Research Advisor to the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS) in Denmark. Professor Essack is member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (STAG-AMR), member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Joint Programming Initiative on AMR (JPIAMR) and member of the International Pharmacy Federation (FIP) AMR Commission. She is chairperson of the Global Respiratory Infection Partnership (GRIP) and she serves on the Advisory Board of the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), the Fleming Fund Expert Advisory Group and is a member of the Wellcome Trust Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug Resistant Infections Consortium (SEDRIC). Her research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of AMR using next generation sequencing and bioinformatics as well as One Health systems strengthening in the context of AMR. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3357-2761 Website: http://sabihaessack.ukzn.ac.za

Other Expertise

Leadership One Health AMR Climate Change Africa Surveillance Public Health One Health Policy Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response Antimicrobial Use Planetary Health Social Determinants and Health Equity Operationalization of One Health-driven Projects