| Lindiwe Makubalo, PhD, currently holds the position of Chief Director in the National Department of Health in Pretoria, South Africa where she oversees three Directorates and one Sub-Directorate. These are the Directorate: Health Systems Research, Research Co-ordination and Epidemiology; Directorate: Health Information Systems and Information Centre; Directorate: Quality Assurance and a Sub-Directorate on Monitoring and Evaluation. She holds a PhD in Health Care Epidemiology from the University of London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her previous academic training was in Behavioural Sciences (BA and MA Psychology, University of Zambia) followed by an MSc in Community Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Makubalo has held positions as Assistant Lecturer in Psychology at Statistics at the University of Zambia, Senior Scientist at the Tropical Disease Research Centre, Epidemiology Department, Zambia, Senior Scientist, Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa and Director: Research and Epidemiology, Dept of Health, Pretoria, South Africa. | | She has a special interest in research methodology and disease surveillance, in particular HIV/AIDS surveillance and has driven the Department of Health’s activities to develop a reliable and comprehensive HIV/AIDS surveillance programme. She has co-ordinated and contributed to numerous documents on standards and guidelines, to texts on methodology and design of national HIV surveillance reports, other public health reports and numerous scientific publications. Dr Makubalo serves on a number of national bodies, including the Medicines Control Council, the Confidential Inquiry into Maternal Deaths, the Essential National Health Research Committee and the National Research Ethics Council. Over the years Dr Makubalo has served as an adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO) and numerous expert panels of the WHO. She is currently a member on the Steering Committee on the Implementation of Research (WHO), the Expert Committee of the Onchoecerciasis Control Program (WHO) and is a member of the International Board of Alliance for Health Research. |
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