Anneke Grobler has more than 24 years’ experience as a biostatistician, at a contract research organisation, at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Melbourne University, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC). In this capacity she has been involved in study design, manuscript writing, protocol writing, grant application, analysis of randomised clinical trials and epidemiological data and database set-up and management as well as the management of staff members. She was an evaluator for the clinical trials committee of the Medicines Control Council in South Africa (similar to the FDA in America) and is a current member of the Drug Trials Subcommittee of the ethics committee at the RCH and various DSMBs. She published 109 papers in peer reviewed journals such as Lancet, Lancet HIV, New England Journal of Medicine and Science.