Prof Blumberg is an infectious diseases physician and medical microbiologist with honorary appointments at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, the Universities of Stellenbosch (Medical Microbiology) and Pretoria (Faculty of Veterinary Sciences), South Africa. Her focus is on outbreak prevention and response, emerging diseases, travel- related infections, the viral hemorrhagic fevers, malaria and zoonosis especially rabies. She is the immediate past chair of the Strategic Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards for the WHO Emergencies Programme and a member of the scientific advisory group for the WHO Neglected Tropical Diseases programme. She is working with ‘Right to Care’ in Mozambique as a Technical Scientific Advisor on Global Health Security. She is the editor -in- chief, international Journal of Infectious Diseases – One Health for the International Society of Infectious Diseases. She was a member of the WHO IHR committee and the Africa CDC expert group for respectively declaring Mpox as a Public Health Emergency of International and Continental Concern. She chaired a WHO Guidelines Committee for supportive care for Mpox, and is a member of the Incident Management team for the Mpox outbreak in South Africa, supporting clinical management.