Invitation – Leopoldina International Virtual Panel (LIVP) – in cooperation with ASSAf, ANSTS, EAS Catalysing Change: A Global Health Approach in the Wake of Pandemics.

Tuesday, 14 May 2024
12:00 – 13:00 CEST
Registration: buff.ly/4aYYkiv

ASSAf’s Scholarly Publishing Unit proudly announces its AI series.

ASSAf seeks to set up a debate series featuring global experts on AI, where the interlocutors are tasked with taking up unequivocally clear & diverse positions.

Registration: buff.ly/3xWfPRX

📢 📢 Congratulations, to ASSAf Member Prof Shabir Madhi, who has been honoured with the Sabin Gold Medal. For his work in the vaccinology on a global scale.

Prof Madhi is Research Chair in Vaccine Preventable Disease & Professor of Vaccinology at Wits University.

The Department is celebrating the career and unique contribution to the public service of former Director-General, Dr Phil Mjwara. Dr Mjwara retired at the end of March 2024. The former DG was the country's longest serving DG, serving 18 years.

Dr Mosima Bernice Kgomo is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of South Africa. Her work focuses on semiconductor metal oxide-based gas sensors for environmental air quality monitoring in the agricultural sector.

Ms Anna Chrysostomou is a third-year PhD student in high-energy physics theory, pursuing a joint-degree between the University of Johannesburg and the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (France) in affiliation with the Institute of Physics of the Two Infinities of Lyon.

Mr Tsebesebe Nkgaphe Tebatjo, is PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cape Town and is affiliated with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) .

Ms Bambesiwe Mbesi May is a PhD candidate in Chemistry at the University of South Africa. Her thesis is currently under examination and in the meantime, she is a pre-doctoral researcher at Mintek.

Ms Modjadji Rebecca Letsoalo is enrolled for a Master of Science degree in Physics at the University of Venda focusing on Material sciences (Microsystems technology).

Dr Bertus Van Heerden is a post-doctoral researcher in the biophysics research group at the University of Pretoria.

Ms Sarah McKee is a PhD candidate at the North-West University and is based at the South African National Space Agency in Hermanus South Africa.

Ms Mosidi Mokoena is currently pursuing her second master’s degree at University of Cape Town whilst hosted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Biophotonics research group.