Dr. Zainub Jooma

Zainub Jooma is a South African anaesthesiologist and academic affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand and Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital. Her clinical and research work is rooted in advancing perioperative care within resource-limited settings, with a strong commitment to improving patient-centred outcomes in public health systems.

Her research focuses on obstetric and paediatric anaesthesia, enhanced recovery after Caesarean section, perioperative quality of recovery, and surgical outcomes across Africa. She has contributed to major collaborative studies on paediatric surgical safety and has explored cost-effective interventions, such as audiovisual distraction, to reduce perioperative anxiety in children.

Jooma has also published on thoracic spinal anaesthesia, high-risk regional techniques, and complex case management, alongside work addressing clinician wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her scholarship reflects strengths in pragmatic clinical research, innovation in constrained environments, and advocacy for safer anaesthesia practice across the African continent.