Prof Brendan Vaughan Girdler-Brown has been a staff member for more than 29 years at the University of Pretoria. He continued to serve the University as an Extraordinary Professor after his retirement. Professor Girdler-Brown held numerous degrees and/or fellowships from various South African and International institutions including the University of Natal (MBChB), the University of Rhodesia (BSc Agriculture), Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Edinburgh, Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (Now retired status), University of Cape Town (both an MMed in Public Health as well as an MBA), UNISA and the Royal College of Physicians, UK (now retired status). He served as the President of College of Public Health Medicine from 2002 - 2008. Brendan has taught several modules since the start of the University of Pretoria’s SHSPH, including Biostatistics and Epidemiology. He was the supervisor or mentor for most of the current academic staff at the SHSPH. He has also previously worked at the National Department of Health, Cape Provincial Administration, Natal Provincial Administration, Namibia, as well as the Zimbabwean National Army. Professor Girdler-Brown played a huge role in the management of the academic programmes at the SHSPH and was instrumental in setting up the Epidemiology and Biostatistics modules of the first and only fully-online integrated course for the Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health (PGDipPH). During the COVID-19 pandemic he was instrumental in providing the Faculty of Health Sciences management teams with weekly updates on the interpretation of the surveillance data shared by the NICD. Brendan will be sorely missed by his family, colleagues, alumni, his students, and the public health community at large. The memorial will be on Friday 20 January at 10am at St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Parish, Victory Park, Johannesburg. In lieu of additional flowers, people can donate in Prof Brendan's memory to the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The church’s address is available at https://saintcharles.co.za/ May his soul rest in peace.

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