Prof Charles Shey Wiysonge is the Director of Cochrane South Africa at the South African Medical Research Council. He is an Honorary Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Cape Town (UCT); and an Extraordinary Professor of Global Health at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
His previous appointments include Deputy Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care and Professor of Community Health at Stellenbosch University; Chief Research Officer at UCT, South Africa; Chief Research Officer at UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland; Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Central Technical Group of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation, Cameroon; and Medical Epidemiologist at the Pasteur Centre of Cameroon.
Prof Wiysonge is a Member of various advisory committees in the fields of research, vaccination, and evidence-based policy in Africa and globally. He obtained an MD from the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon in 1995, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, the UK in 2000, and a PhD from UCT in 2012.
