Marc Mendelson is a professor of infectious diseases and the Division Head of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town. He is the co-founder of the South African Antibiotic Stewardship Programme and chaired the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) between 2014 and 2022.
He is also technical advisor and member of scientific advisory committees for the World Health Organization (WHO), the Global Access for the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) and for Vivli’s antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Register. In his work to mitigate AMR, Marc considers clinical, research and policy perspectives.
Marc studied Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, London and specialised in Infectious Diseases at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, where he attained his PhD. He moved to The Rockefeller University, New York in 2001 and subsequently to UCT to work on tuberculosis and innate immunity.