Dr. Ziyaad Dangor

Site Director, CHAMPS South Africa

Ziyaad Dangor is the Co-Director of CHAMPS South Africa and a pediatric pulmonologist at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto. As a researcher, Ziyaad completed his doctoral thesis on Group B Streptococcal disease’s clinical and immunological epidemiology at the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit. In addition, his research interests include childhood TB, sequelae of lung disease in young infants, and point-of-care lung ultrasound. He has undertaken investigator-initiated, original research using clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory-based techniques to establish a successful research output, including publishing cited papers in high-impact factor journals. In 2019, Ziyaad was rated as a Y1 scientist by the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa.