Dr Cindy George
Dr Cindy George is an Associate Editor of the journal of Public Health Nutrition. She is a Senior Scientist at the South African Medical Research Council, a South African National Research Foundation-rated scientist and Africa-Oxford (AfOx) Fellow. She holds a PhD from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Dr George’s research is centred on chronic kidney disease (CKD) in African populations, focusing on characterizing the burden of CKD and examining the risk factors and underlying mechanisms associated with the disease. She currently managing the CKD-Africa Collaboration, which aims to pool individual participant data (IPD) to, (1) determine the burden of CKD in Africa, (2) create resources that would allow researchers track the burden of CKD and (3) enable CKD projections for Africa.