Riana Bornman

Riana Bornman is Senior Research Professor in the School of Health Systems and Public Health and the Dean’s Office, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria.

Riana is a leading clinical researcher in Environmental and Public Health in South Africa. She initiated the first studies in South Africa and the continent to determine the health implications of exposure to plastics and insecticides by studies for the Water Research Commission, Medical Research Council (MRC-SA), CANSA and NRF. She is a member of the Environmental Chemical Pollution and Health (ECPH) Research Unit at the School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria.

She also leads Community-based Research in the Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, focusing on human and environmental health concerns of insecticides used for malaria control. She is the South African Principal Investigator for USA based National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded studies performed at Tshilidzini Hospital, Thohoyandou in communities focusing on human and environmental health concerns of insecticides used for malaria control.