Dr Prabdial-Sing, Nishi

Nishi Prabdial-Sing is employed as a Principal Medical Scientist at the Centre for Vaccines and Immunology at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases located in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a PhD degree in Medical Virology from the School of Pathology at the University of Witwatersrand.
As a joint faculty member at WITS Faculty of Health Sciences, Prabdial-Sing has successfully supervised and co-supervised seven Honours/Masters students at WITS and North West University. She was appointed as a member of the Pathred Advisory Committee (Virology) for the 2021 Pathred conference and an assessor of Masters protocols at WITS. She has 17 peer-reviewed journal publications, 8 NICD bulletin publications, and was awarded a C2 NRF-rating. She holds research awards from the Poliomyelitis Research Fund and NHLS research trust (2019-2022).
Prabdial-Sing is a member of the technical working group (TWG) on the compilation of the National Guidelines for the management of viral hepatitis with the South African National Department of Health (NDoH). Since 2018, she has been part of the key population focus group tasked with providing the NDoH with strategic and feasible plans of reducing the burden of viral hepatitis disease in the country. Since 2015, she has been involved with the World Health Organization as an expert consultant in the global poliovirus eradication program and was part of the NICD scientific team in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Since 2012, she has been co-ordinating the HPCSA medical science internship programs and facilitating the Virology program at the NICD. She has successfully trained and mentored 19 medical intern scientists.
Currently, she is a member of Federation of the Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa (FIDSSA), Royal Society of Medicine, UK and International Network on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU).