Wendy has a BCom and an Honours degree in Social Policy and Management.
She has nearly 25 years’ experience of operational management experience in the NPO and academic sector, including management of clinical research sites for the UCT Clinical Trials Unit before starting at CIDER. At CIDER, Ms Wiemers is responsible for all financial and operational management of several large studies (budgets ~R20 million per year) with funders including National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, European Union, South African Medical Research Council and Pharmaceutical companies.
Ms Wiemers is a real team player and has been an asset to co-ordinating activities both within projects and in CIDER overall. She took the initiative to volunteer to organize 2 large international meetings of our largest project, the IeDEA Southern Africa Cohort Collaboration.