Join Pharmacy Magazine for a one-hour rabies webinar on Wednesday 4 May at 19h00 where Dr Jacqueline Weyer will provide a synopsis of human rabies in SA, with a discussion on the challenges in the control and prevention of the disease and the way forward in achieving elimination of dog-mediated human rabies in the country by 2030. Dr Andre Coetzer will look at the latest WHO guidelines on human rabies and its prevention including aspects related to the use of vaccines and biologics when it comes to protocols, treatment, and diagnosis in humans.
Dr Jacqueline Weyer is a Principal Medical Scientist at the Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a Division of the National Health Laboratory Service in South Africa. Here she is part of the team leading investigations (diagnostics and research) of human rabies, viral haemorrhagic fevers, and other emerging zoonotic disease of concern to the health of the South African public. She holds a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Pretoria and a Master of Public Health from the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (cum laude). From 2004 to 2005 she was employed as Research Fellow with the Rabies Unit of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta Georgia, United States of America. In 2006 she was awarded the L’Oréal-UNESCO, Department of Science and Technology Woman in Science Award: PhD Fellowship for Life Sciences.
In the past 10 years, Jacqueline has authored and co-authored more than 60 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and seven chapters in books, and achieved a National Research Foundation C2 rating in 2017. Jacqueline has been appointed as Extraordinary Lecturer to the University of Pretoria and a Lecturer in the School of Pathology, University of Witwatersrand. She serves on several national and regional committees and working groups pertaining to laboratory biosafety and biosecurity, rabies and other zoonoses and One Health. She’s been co-chairing the National One Health Forum in SA since its inception and a member of the National Rabies Advisory Group since 2008.