Sabiha Essack

Bio

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 (UKZN). She is the Chair of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (STAG-AMR) and co-chair of the Quadripartite Technical Group on Integrated Surveillance. Professor Essack serves as the Senior Implementation Research Advisor to the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS) in Denmark, she is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Joint Programming Initiative on AMR (JPIAMR) and member of the International Pharmacy Federation (FIP) AMR Commission. Professor Essack is chairperson of the Global Respiratory Infection Partnership (GRIP), she serves on the Advisory Board of the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), the Fleming Fund Expert Advisory Group and is a member of the Wellcome Trust Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug Resistant Infections Consortium (SEDRIC). 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.