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CSIR International Convention Centre, Meiring Naude Road, Brummeria, Pretoria, South Africa, 0001
SPEAKERS AND MODERATORS
Prof. Quarraisha Abdool Karim (South Africa) is one of the world’s leading AIDS researchers, with pioneering contributions in understanding the evolving HIV epidemic among young women while also advocating for the rights of people living with and affected by HIV.
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Prof. Salim Abdool Karim (South Africa) is a clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist who is widely recognised for his research contributions in HIV prevention and treatment. He is Director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and CAPRISA Professor of Global Health at Columbia University.
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Dr Olalekan Akinbo (Nigeria) is a trained Plant breeder from the University of the Free State, South Africa, with post-doctoral training with The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (USA) working in Africa with its cassava transgenic line in Nigeria, and Biotechnology and Biosafety from the Michigan State University, USA.
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Sibusiso Biyela (South Africa) is a science communicator at ScienceLink and SciBraai, and co-host of South Africa’s first and only Zulu popular science podcast iLukuluku. He is a thought-leader on the decolonisation of science and science communication in Africa, especially in developing scientific discourse in African languages.
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David Budtz Pedersen (Denmark) is Professor of Science Communication and Governance at Aalborg University, and Director of the Humanomics Research Centre in Copenhagen. His research focuses on frameworks and tools for communicating the impact of science and technology.
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Prof. Ndumiso Cingo (South Africa) is the Strategic Partnerships Manager for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a position in which he manages collaborations with organisations. He has previously held academic positions at the Tshwane University of Technology and the University of South Africa.
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Dr Wilson Compton (USA) is Deputy Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health where he has worked in leadership positions since 2002. Dr Compton has achieved multiple scientific accomplishments and is a member of numerous professional organisations.
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Daan du Toit (South Africa) is Deputy Director-General for International Cooperation and Resources in the South African Department of Science and Innovation, responsible for all aspects of South Africa’s international science, technology and innovation partnerships.
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Aidan Gilligan (Ireland) is Founder and CEO of the SciCom Network, a Brussels and Cape Town-based science diplomacy agency with Associates in Copenhagen, Geneva, London and Paris, striving to make greater sense of science-policy-making for public, private and especially cause-related groups.
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Thomas Hartung (Germany) is the Doerenkamp-Zbinden-Chair for Evidence-based Toxicology in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, with a joint appointment at the Whiting School of Engineering.
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Zamuxolo Matiwana (South Africa) was born and bred in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape Province. He studied Journalism at the Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha formerly known Port Elizabeth and postgraduate at Rhodes University in Makhanda.
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Prof. Mammo Muchie (South Africa) is the DSI-NRF research chair in Innovation Studies at the Tshwane University of Technology. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Columbia University, USA and his postgraduate MPhil and DPhil in Science, Technology, and Innovation for Development at the University of Sussex, UK.
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Dr Bathabile Ramalapa is a healthcare innovation specialist whose work focuses on developing effective and affordable drug treatments for the management and treatment of diseases, targeted to the specific needs of Africans. She holds a PhD in Chemical Sciences and another in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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Solly Rataemane M.D. (South Africa) is Chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Mental Health, Former Professor and Head of the Psychiatry Department at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) and Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital.
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Dr Janine Scholefield (South Africa) is the Research Group Leader at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and holds a Senior Honorary lectureship position in the Department of Human Biology at UCT, and an Honorary lectureship position at the Department of Human Genetics at Wits.
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Elna Schütz (South Africa) is a freelance journalist who she works in writing and audio, across long-form and shorter news articles. Her work regularly appears in the likes of Mail & Guardian, Daily Maverick, and the BBC. She focuses on a wide range of topics from business to science and health.
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Shaun Shelly (South Africa) is the Human Rights and Policy lead at TB/HIV Care, where he founded SA Drug Policy Week. He holds a post as a researcher at the University of Pretoria, Department of Family Medicine, and is the former Deputy Secretary of the United Nations VNGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs.
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Mandi Smallhorne (South Africa) is a freelance journalist who has been writing about health, climate change, energy and other areas of applied science such as agriculture, for over 25 years. She has done basic training for early career journalists in reporting on science.
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