Welile Sikhondze
Dr Welile Sikhondze is a Public Health Specialist with extensive training and experience in TB research and epidemiology with a focus on Clinical-Laboratory interface strengthening for integrated disease surveillance and evidence-based decision making. She did her MBCHB and MPH training in South Africa at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and University of Cape Town, respectively, and has worked for academia, research organizations/PDP and public health programmes in South Africa, Switzerland and currently in Eswatini/Swaziland. Welile is a TB Technical Expert on a number of WHO Guideline Development Groups/Strategic advisory groups, Global TB Research Taskforce, TDR and EDCTP TWGs. She’s passionate about data-driven policy-making and strategic planning and has supported the conduct of several WHO Epidemiological and TB Programme reviews in a number of African countries since 2014 as a TB Technical Advisor.