Prof Tiaan de Jager is the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Director of the UP ISMC, and a professor in Environmental Health at the School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria. He has a PhD in Reproductive Biology and he completed a post-doctoral study at Laval University, Canada. Prof de Jager is involved in on-going epidemiological and laboratory-based reproductive toxicology, and epigenetic studies.
He is keenly involved in malaria, public health and water quality research. Prof de Jager is an internationally recognised researcher (C1 NRF-rated), supervises several post-graduate students, and is dedicated to building research capacity and promoting science in Africa. He maintains multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary collaborations, is involved in malaria outreach programmes and regularly engages with communities; all looking towards malaria elimination in Africa. He has published more than 55 scientific papers in international Journals. SCOPUS H-index = 16 (citations 1245).