Harsha Somaroo

Dr Harsha Somaroo is a Public Health Medicine Specialist with a background in clinical care, HIV research, and health management. She currently holds a joint-appointment post at the Department of Community Health, WITS School of Public Health and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Gauteng Department of Health. She also presently serves as the president of the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA), chairperson of the Transformation Committee at the WITS School of Public Health, and is a council member at the College of Public Health Medicine of South Africa. In May 2020, she was appointed as a Public Health Medicine technical advisor to the Gauteng Department of Health’s COVID-19 Nerve Centre, and has been supporting COVID-19 surveillance in the Province since then.