Prof von Gottberg, Anne

Prof Anne von Gottberg is currently the laboratory lead for the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is furthermore an Associate Professor at the School of Pathology, Faculty of the Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand and Honorary Professor at the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town.
Dr Von Gottberg leads a laboratory team responsible for reference diagnostics for respiratory and meningeal pathogens nationally and regionally. The laboratory is the regional reference laboratory for the World Health Organization (WHO) Vaccine-preventable Invasive Bacterial Diseases (VP-IBD) Coordinated Global Surveillance Network for the southern African region; a National Influenza Centre (NIC); and a WHO RSV and SARS-CoV-2 Reference Laboratory.
Her main interests include surveillance of meningitis and respiratory pathogens and assessing vaccine efficacy. She has authored and co-authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to supervising a number of Masters and PhD students.
Dr Von Gottberg obtained her MBBCh and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, and trained for her specialisation in clinical microbiology (FC Path[SA] MICRO) at the National Health Laboratory Service (former South African Institute for Medical Research) and at the University of the Witwatersrand.