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6th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting

  • Kobus Herbst

    Dr Kobus Herbst - Participant

    Multimorbidity in Africa: Digital innovation, visualisation and application (Co-PI)

    He is a faculty member and the Director of Science at the Africa Health Research Institute. He chairs the interim Steering Committee of the Africa Population Cohort Consortium and co-leads the Welllcome funded award for the APCC start-up. He is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Health Cohort Consortium (IHCC) and the H3Africa Data and Biosample Access Committee. He is honorary chief scientist at the South African Medical Research Council and the past Director of the DSI-funded South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN). Kobus graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Pretoria in 1979, did a masters in Bioengineering at the University of Cape Town and registered as a public health physician in 1994 following a registrarship at MEDUNSA.