Prof Tarylee Reddy is the Director of the Biostatistics Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town.

She holds the position of Secretary of the International Biometric Society (2024-Present) and Co-Chair of the IBS Mentorship Oversight Task Force (2021-Present).

At the regional level, Prof Reddy serves as the President of the South African Region of the International Biometric Society (2023-Present).

She holds a PhD in Statistics (2017) from the University of Hasselt in Belgium. Prof Reddy’s research interests include the analysis of complex longitudinal data, with applications to infectious diseases, and she has led several projects in this area.

Prof Reddy has authored and co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications.

She was a 2021 winner of the InspiringFiftySA award, as well as a recipient of a Silver SAMRC Scientific Merit Award in 2023.

In 2023 she was awarded the Paul Janssen Award for Statistical Collaboration in the South.

Interest areas: HIV/AIDS Surveys; multistate Markov models, joint modelling of longitudinal and time to event data, missing data analysis