Our Professional Team
Dr Sandy Pillay
Dr Pillay is an Occupational Medicine Practitioner, HIV/TB Clinician and Clinical Researcher with more than 20 years’ experience in the fields of HIV, TB and occupational medicine. Dr Pillay is Director of the Enhancing Care Foundation and RUBIC Health which conduct internationally-funded research in the fields of infectious diseases and behaviour change.
He led the first round of the Global Fund’s HIV corporate program for the University of KwaZulu Natal and is currently the lead for the sub-recipient to the Global Fund’s HIV in the Mining Sector (TIMS) grant. Dr Pillay is widely published in the fields of HIV, TB and behavioural research. He has developed innovative, evidence-based COVID-19 workplace solutions using local and international guidelines and recommendations and is involved with cutting edge research into COVID-19 therapeutics in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health of the US and other partners.
Dr Moise Muzigaba
Dr Muzigaba is an MPhil, MPH and PhD qualified Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics expert working at the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organisation (WHO). He has served as Monitoring and Evaluation specialist and researcher at the University of KwaZulu Natal and was head of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Strategic Information (MERSI) Unit of the Enhancing Care Foundation.
He has experience in providing technical expertise and leadership across various projects specifically in the domain of developing and maintaining M&E systems, results-based management (RBM), Implementation/operations research, impact evaluation, and strategic information generation and dissemination. Dr Muzigaba is currently based in Geneva with WHO and is widely published in the fields of Infectious Diseases, Public Health, medical education and evaluation of systems.
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Dr Ramsuran graduated with a PhD in Genetics from the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) before taking up a position at the Ragon Institute of MGH and MIT and Harvard University for post-doctoral research. He rejoined UKZN’s College of Health Sciences as Group Leader at the Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP).
Dr Ramsuram is an associate scientist at the Centre for AIDS Programme of Research in SA (CAPRISA) and the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the US Government. He has authored several high impact publications including a first author paper in Science. In addition, he has been the recipient of numerous honours and awards. Dr Ramsuran is senior scientist at the UKZN’s COVID-19 diagnostic laboratory and has been involved in the implementation of PCR testing for the university, National Health Laboratory Services and numerous private laboratory services as part of the COVID-19 response strategy for S.A.
