Lucille H. Blumberg Professor Blumberg is currently a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at ‘Right to Care’ South Africa where she focus on creating a One Health programme within RTC and responding to health emergencies in South Africa and the region. She has specialist qualifications in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.
Until 30 September 2021, she was the Deputy Director at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), and founding head of the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response. During her 20 years in the division she has responded to many communicable diseases outbreaks including cholera, influenza A H1N1 (p2009), rabies, Ebola, malaria, typhoid, listeria, diphtheria, Covid 19, measles and polio (Namibia). She currently holds an honorary position at the NICD supporting the division and also acts as the medical consultant to the Centre for Emerging, Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases where her major focus is on malaria, rabies, viral during the haemorrhagic fevers, zoonotic diseases and travel – related infections. She holds honorary positions in Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Stellenbosch and the Faculty of Veterinary Science at University of Pretoria.