Professor Silke Dyer is in fulltime clinical-academic practice at Groote Schuur Hospital and the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, where she is Head of the Reproductive Medicine Unit and Deputy Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Prof Dyer’s clinical and academic work is driven by the desire to improve infertility-related reproductive health services and access to care, and through this the quality of life of infertile people. Her research is focused on data registries monitoring utilisation, availability, effectiveness and safety of ART, the delivery of infertility service in low resource settings, and the psychological and socio-cultural experience of infertility.