Professor Marc Mendelson

Professor Marc Mendelson PhD FRCP FRSSAf is Professor of Infectious Diseases at University of Cape Town and Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at its academic teaching hospital, Groote Schuur. He is a UK national, trained at St Mary’s Hospital London, Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge, and The Rockefeller University New York but has worked in Cape Town for the past 23 years.

He is currently on a 2-year secondment to direct The Trinity Challenge until March 2024. His work covers clinical, research, and policy aspects of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). He is co-author of South Africa’s National Strategic Framework on AMR and chaired its Ministerial Advisory Committee for 8 years.

Marc has worked with WHO on multiple advisory groups, is Chair of Vivli’s Open Data Registry, and a member of the scientific advisory boards for the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership and the G20 AMR Hub stakeholders’ group.

He is principle investigator of the Cape Town hub of the Centres for Antimicrobial Optimisation Network, has over 250 publications and has held the presidencies of the Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa and the International Society for Infectious Diseases.