Marcus Low

Spotlight Editor

Dr Marcus Low has been part of Spotlight’s editorial team since the publication’s launch in 2016.

Spotlight does in-depth public interest health journalism with a focus on HIV, TB, COVID-19 and the healthcare system in South Africa. While Spotlight is published by SECTION27 and its fulltime employees are employed by SECTION27,

Marcus was previously the head of policy, research and communication at the Treatment Action Campaign, editor of the magazine Equal Treatment, and before that a journalist at Media24. He has a PhD in computational epidemiology from the University of Cape Town. He is the author of the novel asylum (Pan MacMillan 2017).