Professor Angela Dramowski is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist, clinician researcher, and the Head of the Clinical Unit for General Paediatrics at Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. With over 25 years of public health service, she delivers data-driven quality improvements to safeguard hospitalized newborns and children from preventable infections. Her primary expertise includes Neonatal Sepsis, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). 

 

At Stellenbosch University she established the interdisciplinary Neonatal Infections Research Group that spans neonatology, infectious diseases, data science, infection prevention, microbiology, pharmacology, pharmacy and nursing. In 2023, she co-founded the NeoNET AFRICA partnership to facilitate collaborative neonatal sepsis diagnosis, treatment and prevention research.  

 

Internationally, she serves as co-chair of the Severe Bacterial and Fungal Infections Working Group (PENTA-ID) and co-chair of the World Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases AMR Action Committee. In South Africa and Africa, she is co-chair of the NeoNET AFRICA Partnership Neonet Africa | Saving Newborn Lives, chair of the African Neonatal Association sepsis working group, and co-lead of the SA Neonatal Sepsis Task Team, ensuring that her research programme is embedded in the regions and health systems it aims to strengthen.