{"id":582,"date":"2018-04-04T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T11:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/h3a.cbio.uct.ac.za\/?page_id=582"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:50:18","slug":"michelle-skelton-profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/consortium\/michelle-skelton-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Michelle Skelton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;5972&#8243; img_size=&#8221;300&#215;300&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_circle_2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Dr Michelle Skelton<\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">University of Cape Town<\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Dr Michelle Skelton is a programme manager and leader in genomics and data science in Africa. She leads the H3Africa and DS-I Africa Coordinating Centres at the University of Cape Town and supports scientific collaboration across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>As Principal Investigator of the H3Africa Administrative Coordinating Centre and the DS-I Africa Coordinating Centre, she oversees consortium administration, communications, fiscal management, policy and guideline development, and the coordination of meetings and conferences. Her work also supports early-career scientists through training, professional-development initiatives and strategic partnerships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/dbac\/\">\u2190 Back to the H3Africa DBAC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>University of Cape Town<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5976,"parent":46,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consortium-documents","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15479,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/582\/revisions\/15479"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}