Colleen Aldous is a full professor in the School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. She obtained her Ph.D. in science education from the University of Twente in the Netherlands in 2009. She is a member of the South African Society for Human Genetics and a member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa. Since entering tertiary education in 2002, she has held research positions in the Department of Genetics and has worked across all clinical disciplines in a mentoring research capacity in the School of Clinical Medicine. Her main research areas are clinical genetics and postgraduate clinical research education. The national and international approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused her to look more closely at the meaning of evidence-based medicine in the context of a pandemic.