Vanessa Quan

Vanessa is a medical doctor who qualified in 1993 at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (Wits), South Africa. She has an interest in child health and infectious diseases and holds a Master's in Public Health, Maternal and Child Health (Wits).

She has been working at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) since 2002 in surveillance and heads the GERMS-SA Surveillance platform, a national laboratory surveillance system with an enhanced, sentinel surveillance arm and clinics for syndromic surveillance.