Prof Perovic, Olga

Prof Olga Perovic is currently lead for the Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory and Culture Collection at the Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases located in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand and has been the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for AMR in the AFRO region since 2017. Perovic in an honorary research fellow at the University of Kwazulu-Natal.
She is the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) lead in South Africa, principal investigator of national surveillance for antimicrobial resistance for nosocomial pathogens at GERMS-SA, is an expert in laboratory quality for resistance and antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods and their clinical applications; and finally teaches and trains undergraduate, postgraduate and other related learners.
Perovic is a member of Ministerial advisory Committee (MAC) for AMR, Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP), Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS), Advisory Group of Experts on In vitro Diagnostics (SAGE IVD) WHO, Advisory Group on Critically Important Antimicrobials (AG CIA) for Human Medicine and Chair of the National Advisory Committee for Antimicrobial at the South African Society of Clinical Microbiology (SASCM).