Dr. Carl Reddy is the director of TEPHINET. From March 2013-August 2019, Dr. Reddy served as the director of the South African Field Epidemiology Training Program (SAFETP) housed within the National Institute of Communicable Diseases of South Africa. In June 2016, he was elected by the leadership of TEPHINET’s member programs for a three-year term as the chairman of the TEPHINET Advisory Board. As SAFETP director, Dr. Reddy was instrumental to the program’s growth and quality improvement, helping it attain TEPHINET accreditation in 2018. In addition, Dr. Reddy oversaw the implementation of FETP Frontline training for SAFETP in 2016 and the establishment of a field epidemiology track at a second university, the University of the Witwatersrand (prior to his tenure, SAFETP was already a degree-granting program at the University of Pretoria).

Dr. Reddy was a participant at the June 2018 Task Force for Global Health meeting at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center to develop the Global Field Epidemiology Roadmap and its February 2019 follow-up meeting at the World Health Organization. He has served as a volunteer reviewer for TEPHINET’s accreditation program and a member of the steering committee for TEPHIConnect, TEPHINET’s global FETP alumni network. Apart from his involvement with TEPHINET, he has also been a member of the AFENET (African Field Epidemiology Network) Board of Directors from November 2015-November 2017, a member of the AFENET Human Resources Subcommittee from November 2014-November 2015, and a member of the AFENET Finance and Audit Subcommittee since November 2014 (serving as the latter’s chairman from November 2015-November 2017).

Before joining SAFETP, Dr. Reddy worked as the director of the UNAIDS Technical Support Facility based at Health Development Africa in Johannesburg. Prior to that, he held technical officer positions with the Global Fund Team at UNAIDS, the Africa Unit of the Global Fund, and the Tropical Diseases Research Program of the World Health Organization in Geneva. He was also a senior scientist in the Unit for Clinical and Biomedical Tuberculosis Research of the Medical Research Council of South Africa.

Dr. Reddy completed his medical degree at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South Africa. He also completed a Diploma in Anesthetics and the Fellowship of the College of Public Health Medicine, the South African public health specialty for medical graduates. His epidemiological training began when he won a scholarship from the Mexican government to study Spanish and Mexican culture and conduct public health research in Mexico. This was followed by a second scholarship from the Mexican government to complete a master’s of science degree in epidemiology at the National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca.