Brenda Morrow

Brenda is a full Professor in the Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Brenda has special interests in interdisciplinary paediatric critical care practice and research; global health; cardiopulmonary rehabilitation; palliative care; and medical ethics. Brenda has over 168 peer reviewed publications; she is co-editor of the textbook, “Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy in Trauma: An Evidence-based Approach”; she has written 22 book chapters; and presented at numerous national and international congresses.

Brenda holds a Southern African National Research Foundation (NRF) B rating. She is the immediate past-President of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) and current President of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa. Brenda is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Southern African Journal of Critical Care; Senior Associate Editor for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Associate Academic Editor of PlosOne.

She is a regular reviewer for over 40 international journals and grant funding agencies. She recently won the 2025 South African Women in Science Distinguished Woman Researcher Award (Natural and Engineering Sciences).