Professor Lucille Blumberg

Professor Lucille Blumberg is an infectious diseases physician and medical microbiologist. She currently has honorary appointments at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, the Universities of Stellenbosch (Medical Microbiology) and University of Pretoria (Faculty of Veterinary Sciences), South Africa, and is a technical advisor to ‘Right to Care’. Her focus is on outbreak prevention and response, emerging diseases, travel- related infections, the viral haemorrhagic fevers, malaria and zoonosis especially rabies. She is the past chair of the Strategic Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards for the WHO Emergencies Programme and a member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases, with a focus on rabies and human African trypanosomiasis. She is the current chair of the steering group for United Against Rabies. She is a long-standing member of the National Rabies Advisory Group in South and a past chair of the South African Malaria Elimination Committee (SAMEC). Professor Blumberg has been involved in the prevention, detection and responses to a number of communicable disease outbreaks including Mpox, cholera, typhoid, rabies, the Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers (Lujo, Rift Valley fever, CCHF), Avian Influenza (A H5N2) and diphtheria.