Dr. Jacqueline Weyer
Jacqueline Weyer is a Principal Medical Scientist at the Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, 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 heamorrhagic 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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta Georgia, United States of America. In 2006 she was awarded the L’Oreal-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 40 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, since 2008, and has been involved in supervision of 14 BSc Hons or MSc research studies, one MPH and four PhD Students. In 2020, she was appointed as 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 been co-chairing the National One Health Forum in South Africa since its inception.