Achievements

Congratulations are in order for Prof Nelesh Govender who was recently promoted to Professor in the School of Pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Govender began his career in public health 15 years ago when was the appointed head of the Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses Surveillance (GERMS) at the National […]

The National Institutes for Communicable Diseases (NICD) congratulates Ntando Phaahla, a PhD student working in the NICD’s Centre for HIV and STI, for having won the Best Student Poster in the Infectious Diseases category. The Faculty Research Day and Postgraduate Expo 2018, from the University of the Witwatersrand, took place on the 6th of September.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) lauds Dr Charissa Mynhardt for her sterling research abstract presentation that won the prize for best Scientific Poster Presentation in the Infectious Diseases Category at the University of Witwatersrand’s 2018 Research Day and Postgraduate Expo, held on 6 September 2018. Her research abstract (together with other authors) presentation

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) congratulates Professor Lucille Blumberg on her South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Special Award which recognises her staunch work in keeping the public protected from infectious disease. The SAMRC runs an annual Scientific Merit Awards programme that recognises outstanding contributions to health research in South Africa by local