Marc Mendelson MBBS, FRCP

Marc Mendelson is Professor of Infectious Diseases and Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town (UCT). He studied Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, London and specialized in Infectious Diseases at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, where he attained his PhD. He moved to The Rockefeller University, New York in 2001 and subsequently to UCT to work on tuberculosis and innate immunity.

Marc is Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance, the South African lead for Antimicrobial Resistance on the Global Health Security Agenda, co-chair of the South African Antibiotic Stewardship Programme, and co-author the South African Antimicrobial Strategic Framework. He is on multiple WHO technical advisory panels relating to antibiotic resistance, is a member of the scientific advisory group of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), and a member of the AMR Core Team of the World Economic Forum/Wellcome Trust collaboration on implementing new models of antibiotic R&D.

He is President-Elect of the International Society for Infectious Diseases and Past-President of the Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa.