National:

 

• UP: Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Clinical Investigations Steve Biko and Kalafong Hospital, Vaccinology/antiviral clinical trials unit, NHLS Pathology departments (Virology, Microbiology, immunology, chemical and forensic pathology); Environmental/wastewater researchers in microbiology and Virology; Health Measurement Sciences, School of Health Systems and Public Health; Centre for Viral Zoonoses.

 

• UP: Faculty of Veterinary Science:
  • Veterinary Pathologist, Veterinary clinical expert including wildlife and livestock and domestic animals. Experts in bacterial zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, One Health. (Additional private, state, and academic veterinarians participate in surveillance)

 

• UP: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences:
  • Bioinformatics Institute); Zoology, Centre for Environmental Studies

 

• NICD: Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases; Vector Control Reference Lab [CEZP]; Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis; Centre for Enteric Diseases; Wastewater surveillance consortium

 

• UCT Biopharma unit and Vaccination Chair

 

• Onderstepoort Veterinary Research

 

• Medical Research Council: Director of the Office of AIDS & TB Research at the South African Medical Research Council; Health systems; Modelling Consortium and Wastewater.

 

• NGS-SA Consortium: (Director NGS-SA Consortium, Director KRISP University of KwaZulu-Natal and CERI Stellenbosch University); members from Universities of KwaZulu Natal; the University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Free State; Stellenbosch University; University of Cape Town, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS)

 

Key International collaborators include but not limited to:

 

• Dr Fabian Leedertz; One Health chair, Helmholtz Institutes in Greifswald Germany; (Former PI on of the African Network for improved Diagnostics and Epidemiology of Common and Emerging Diseases (ANDEMIA Network) Robert Koch Institute with Dr Chantal Koffi (The University Teaching Hospital (CHU) Bouaké, Côte’d Ivoire) 

 

• Leap Agri, LEARN (Long term European/Africa Research Network on Neglected Arboviruses): Prof. Dr. Martin H. Groschup, Dir. u. Prof. Head of the Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases; Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany; Dr. Markus Keller. Dr. P.J. (Paul) Wichgers Schreur, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research

 

• Industry Partners: Prof Jeroen Kortekaas, Director Transboundary Animal Diseases, Boehringer Ingelheim, Lyon, France 

 

• Prof Albert Osterhaus (University of Hanover)

 

• Prof Marian Koopmans, department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

 

• Prof Duncan Steel, Deputy Director and Strategic Lead for Enteric Vaccines, Enteric and Diarrhoeal Diseases, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Environmental and One Health surveillance initiatives.

 

• Gustavo Palacios, Global Health & Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

 

• Prof Alessandra Scagliarini, Department of Medicine, Specialist in Diagnostics, Università di Bologna (Italia), Chair of the UNA EUROPA One Health Self Steering Committee UNA_OH

 

• Dr Marc-Alain Widdowson: Director · Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM), Global Health, Influenza, One Health, Arboviruses

 

• Entomology collaborators: Dr Paula Almeida, NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; Dr Rosemary Sang, ICIPE and KEMRY, Kenya; Prof Leo Braack, Senior Vector Control Specialist: Malaria Consortium Asia, Co-Chair: APMEN Vector Control Working Group, Malaria Consortium Mahidol University, Thailand

 

• Dr Marc Ruyembe and Leonard Mboera, Southern African Centres for infectious Diseases (SACIDS) Foundation for One Health