Professor Sinead Delany-Moretlwe is the Director of Research at Wits RHI, a Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Cape Town. A medical doctor by training, Professor Delany-Moretlwe completed her postgraduate training in infectious diseases and epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests span the intersection of sexual and reproductive health and infectious diseases.
She has been an investigator on several Phase III trials of new HIV prevention technologies. Her work also includes research to enhance cervical cancer elimination through screening and vaccination, and the development of novel diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines for other sexually transmitted infections. Prof Delany-Moretlwe is an active member of several national and global advisory committees on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and she is Co-Principal Investigator of the HIV Prevention Trials Network.
