Brief CV of Professor Barry Schoub

Barry David Schoub was born in Johannesburg and received his undergraduate MB BCh at the University of the Witwatersrand. He also holds the following postgraduate degrees:-

MMed (Master of Medicine) in Microbiological Pathology University of Stellenbosch

MD (Doctorate of Medicine) University of Pretoria

DSc (Doctorate of Science) University of the Witwatersrand

FRC Path (Fellow of the Royal College of Pathology)

FC Path (SA) (Fellow of the College of Pathology of South Africa)

FRSSAf (Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa)

ASSAf (Academy of Science of South Africa)

He was appointed as the first Professor and Head of the Department of Virology of the University of the Witwatersrand in 1978 at the age of 33 and in 1982 became the Director of the National Institute for Virology. In January 2002 Professor Schoub was appointed as the Executive Director of the new National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

In 1977 he received a United States Public Health Service international postdoctoral fellowship and was the first recipient of the James Gear International Postdoctoral Fellowship and was a Fogarty fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA.

• He is a member of a number of international bodies and has served as an advisor for several WHO programmes including polio, measles, RSV and influenza.

• He is a member of the Advisory Committee for Poliomyelitis Eradication [ACPE] of the World Health Organization.

• He is a member of the interim board of the International Society of Influenza and Respiratory Viruses.

• He served as South Africa’s delegate to the International Union of Microbiological Societies.

• He is an expert advisor for the Technical Advisory Groups of WHO Afro for polio and measles.

• He was the founding Chairman and present Chairman of the National Advisory Group on Immunization of South Africa and in addition serves on several National Advisory Committees

• He was the founding President of the African Virology Association

• He is the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Poliomyelitis Research Foundation

• He served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the South African AIDS Vaccine initiative

• He was on the International Scientific Advisory Committees of the 1990, 1996 and 1999 International Congresses of Virology and the 1996 and 1998 International AIDS Congresses

• He has published over 240 scientific publications, 16 chapters in books and has written a book on HIV/AIDS, entitled “AIDS & HIV in Perspective”, published by Cambridge University Press now in its 2nd edition.

Amongst the awards he has received is the Paul Harris Award of Rotary International and the Daubenton prize of the University of the Wiwatersrand