Adj. Tanusha Ramdin

Tanusha Ramdin is a South African clinician-researcher affiliated with Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work spans neonatology, paediatric infectious diseases, and maternal health, with active participation in major national and global collaborations, including landmark studies published in The Lancet and PLoS Medicine.

Her research focuses on neonatal sepsis, antimicrobial resistance, and outcomes of vulnerable newborns in low- and middle-income settings. Through the NeoOBS study and related work, she has advanced understanding of antibiotic use patterns, resistance profiles, and risk prediction in neonatal sepsis. Additional studies address candidaemia in very low birth weight infants and neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely preterm survivors.

Ramdin has also contributed to influential COVID-19 cohort analyses in high HIV and tuberculosis prevalence settings, informing policy on risk stratification and health system response. Her scholarship integrates clinical insight with epidemiological methods, strengthening evidence for infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, and context-appropriate neonatal interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.