Rudzani Muloiwa, MB ChB, FCPaed (SA),MSc.(LSHTM) PhD, is Professor and HOD in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa, where he is also co-director of the Vaccines for Africa Initiative. He is also head of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. Rudzani earned his MB ChB degree from the University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal) in Durban, South Africa, completed a fellowship in paediatrics with the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, before earning his PhD from the University of Cape Town. His clinical interests include infectious diseases, particularly vaccine-preventable diseases.
Rudzani is director of One to One Africa, a child well-being advocacy organization as well as serving on the Board of Students For Better Future (SBF) . A founding member of the International Bordetella Society, he is a member of the National Advisory Group on Immunization (NAGI), the South African National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) that advises the country’s minister of health on all aspects related to public immunization. He is also a member of the South African HIV Clinicians Society and a former member of its working group that authored guidelines for vaccinating HIV-infected individuals, and he has taken part in the national effort to publicize the value of vaccinating this high-risk group. In addition, he is a member of Vaccine Safety Net, established by the World Health Organization to provide reliable information on vaccine safety.
Rudzani has served as the travelling secretary for CMF South Africa as well as ICMDA’s area student rep for Southern Africa.
