Speaker

Professor Silke Dyer (FCOG, PhD) is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Reproductive Medicine Subspecialist. She is the Director of ANARA – The African Network and Registry for Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Clinical Data Director of the International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ICMART). She serves on the Science and Technology Advisory Group of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction.

In 2024, she was conferred the prestigious title of Jakadiyar Kula Da Lafiyan Iyalan Kasar Jiwa (Ambassador of Family Health and Humanitarian Activities of Jiwa Chiefdom) in recognition of outstanding contribution to Nigeria and other African countries for her unwavering commitment towards a better health activity on the continent.

She is Head of the Division of Gynaecology and Full Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. Her clinical and academic work is driven by the desire to improve infertility-related reproductive health services and access to care. Her research, regional activity, and international engagement are focussed on registries monitoring utilisation, availability, effectiveness and safety of ART and the delivery of fertility care in low resource settings.

Prof Silke Dyer is in fulltime clinical and academic practice at Groote Schuur Hospital, a level three referral centre in the public-academic health sector of South Africa.