South African Research Chair in Antibiotic Resistance & One Health
Antimicrobial Research Unit, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Sabiha Essack is the South African Research Chair in Antibiotic Resistance and One Health and Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is the lead of the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform Action Group on “Stewardship across the Lifecycle of Antimicrobials: a One Health Approach” and member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for AMR (STAG-AMR). Sabiha serves as the Senior Implementation Research Advisor to the International Centre for AMR Solutions (ICARS) based in Denmark and chairs the Global Respiratory Infection Partnership (GRIP). She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Council for AMR, member of the International Pharmacy Federation (FIP) AMR Commission, member of the Wellcome Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug Resistant Infections Consortium (SEDRIC) and she serves on the Advisory Board of the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X) and the Fleming Fund Expert Advisory Group. Her research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of AMR using next generation sequencing and bioinformatics as well as One Health systems strengthening in the context of AMR. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3357-2761 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eejmC2kAAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://sabihaessack.ukzn.ac.za