Dr Mohammad Issack

Dr Mohammad Issack studied medicine in England and trained as a clinical microbiologist mainly at Guy’s Hospital in London. He obtained an MSc in medical microbiology from the University of London in 1993 and his specialist qualification in microbiology from the UK Royal College of Pathologists in 1996. He is currently Consultant Pathology at the Central Health Laboratory in Mauritius where he has been Head of the Bacteriology department since 1997. The department performs bacteriological testing of clinical samples as well as microbiological testing of food and water for the Ministry of Health and Wellness.

His main interests include antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology of bacterial meningitis and foodborne infections. He has published many articles in international journals and given several oral presentations in English or French in regional conferences and training courses on these subjects.  He played an active role in the preparation of the National Action Plan on AMR of the Republic of Mauritius and provided data on the evolution of resistance since 1997 in various pathogens in Mauritius. He is also Adjunct Professor in the department of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Mauritius where he has taught microbiology and tropical infectious diseases to medical students since 1998.

He was a member of the working group which established the first Critically Important Antibacterials list in Canberra in 2005 and has previously participated in two Joint FAO/OIE/WHO Expert Workshops. He is an Executive committee member of the African Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases and a member of the World Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases AMR Declaration Working Group. He is a member of the “Dispositif en Partenariat One Health Océan Indien”, a network of health professionals, veterinarians and vector biologists of the Southwest Indian Ocean Islands with the objective of preventing and controlling human and animal infectious diseases.