Mrs Reshma Misra is a medical technologist by profession and commenced her career in a Microbiology Reference Laboratory in a public hospital. She has considerable experience in all aspects of Medical Microbiology, including Mycology and Tuberculosis. During this time, she took a keen interest in education and training, policy development, quality assurance and participated in accreditation. She served on the Board of the University of Technology, Chairperson of the Microbiology Committee, assisted with College for Medicine South Africa exams and developed a Microbiology Training Manual for Student technologists and technicians. Reshma has always been interested in research and innovation. This served as a catalyst for entering the domain of research and education within Medical Microbiology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. During this time, she managed various research projects, the research laboratory and supervised students. The research projects were mainly on Tuberculosis and also had an arm of surveillance of healthcare-associated infections and outbreaks. The research led to five publications, in which Reshma is a co-author. Her interest in academia prompted her to complete the Bachelor of Medical Science( Honours): Infection prevention and control, for which she was admitted into the elite Golden Key and then the Master's of Medical Science. The master's project had an infection prevention and control focus, entitled, Proliferation of Klebsiella pneumoniae in medication containing vials for multiple dose medication and intravenous fluids. She was awarded by the Infection Control Africa Network for recognition of original African research. Reshma is currently the Assistant Director: Provincial Infection Prevention and Control – KwaZulu Natal, with 13 years of experience in IPC. She has contributed to the development of the section on hand hygiene in the Practical Manual for the Implementation of the National IPC Strategic Framework, developed many provincial documents and served on the national IPC technical working group. She is a strong leader who believes in capacitation and teamwork. Working in this domain has enabled vast experience in strategic planning, policy development, education and training, surveillance of healthcare-associated infection, led numerous outbreak investigations, indicator development, inspections and auditing and feedback. She has successfully led many projects from inception to implementation, such digitalisation of the IPC monitoring systems( hand hygiene, neonatal IPC and surveillance of healthcare-associated infection). These systems are innovative and unique in South Africa. She is also appointed to various technical advisory committees, including the Health Infrastructure Approval Committee. Reshma is innovative, resourceful and constantly researching and updating prevention strategies that are practical, implementable and sustainable in a low-resource setting