Prof Marietjie Venter

Email address: [email protected]

Prof Marietjie Venter obtained a PhD (Medical Virology)(Wits)(2003) on Respiratory Syncytial Virus and postdoctoral training at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA (2003) on West Nile virus. She worked on respiratory- and zoonotic arboviruses since 1999, as medical scientist at the National Institute for Communicable diseases (NICD), and University of Pretoria (2006-). She was co-director, Centre for Respiratory diseases and Meningitis, NICD and National Influenza Centre Director, 2009-2014. From 2014-2016, One Health Program director, Global Disease Detection Centre, US-Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC), South Africa. She is Full Professor (Medical Virology) since 2016, heading the Zoonotic arbo & respiratory virus program and co-founder, Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Department Medical Virology, University of Pretoria.  She has >130 publications in this field with an H index of 48 and > 6000 scientific citations. She won the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) award in (2013) for the best output by a senior scientist over 5-10y in South Africa. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) (2021-).  She is part of expert advisory groups to the World Health Organization on surveillance of Influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, and the WHO Technical Advisory group for Arboviruses and the Chair of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, including COVID19 (SAGO). She is a member of the Federation of Infectious disease societies of Southern Africa (FIDSSA) and launched the Southern Africa Virology group for FIDSSA. She is also the international One Health Day contact for Africa and the Global One Health Community and the Vice President for Africa for the World Society for Virology (2020-).

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-824X

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marietjie-venter-64947243/