Mrs Moosa, Fahima

Fahima Moosa, is a Senior Medical Scientist at the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis (CRDM), located at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. She obtained her MSc qualification, with distinction, from the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS).
Her main research focus for her MSc was to determine the detection rate of B. pertussis amongst individuals presenting with severe and mild respiratory disease in South Africa. Moosa is now enrolled at WITS as a PhD student and is continuing her research on B. pertussis.
In addition to her PhD research objectives, Moosa has been involved in managing the molecular laboratory aspects of the pneumonia surveillance study at CRDM, which focuses on obtaining epidemiology and molecular data on respiratory pathogens, influenza, RSV, SARS-CoV-2 and B. pertussis.