YouTube video by CERI & KRISP Centre Epidemic Response & Innovation

YouTube video by CERI & KRISP Centre Epidemic Response & Innovation

Weak surveillance and climate change could allow deadly hantaviruses to spread unnoticed across African countries, raising the risk of future outbreaks.

Africa CDC today announced the launch of the African Strategic Advisory Group on Genomics (ASAG), a new continental advisory mechanism established to provide independent, multidisciplinary, and truste...

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It has been raining across South Africa, and not everyone experiences it the same way. Some of us pause to watch the drops trace the mountains.

YouTube video by CERI & KRISP Centre Epidemic Response & Innovation

YouTube video by CERI & KRISP Centre Epidemic Response & Innovation

YouTube video by CERI & KRISP Centre Epidemic Response & Innovation

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A heavily mutated variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 appears to be affecting primarily children, scientists say, though it’s not causing more severe disease – in kids or in adults.

Behind every antibiotic decision in a neonatal ward is a clinician with incomplete information, a critically ill newborn, and a clock. New research from the @INSIGHTS study reveals just how wide the g...

There is a particular kind of courage it takes to leave everything familiar and build something new on the other side of the world. For Danilo De Silva, that decision started not with ambition, but wi...

The 29th International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (#VEME2026) will take place in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 6–11 September 2026. Over six intensive days of lectures, ...

The advice for young African scientists to “take up space” is both important and timely. Interestingly, some of today’s most exciting research focuses on the space occupied by trillions of microbes ...

Four of CERI’s PhD fellows have been awarded the prestigious Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (OMT) Fellowship – a recognition reserved for scholars whose work demonstrates both scientific excellence and le...

Hosted by the Public Squares Initiative at Stellenbosch University, this podcast bridges the gap between research and society through conversation and dialogue with researchers, practitioners, and com...