Salim S. Abdool Karim
Caprisa Professor for Global Health in Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health (USA)
Salim S. Abdool Karim, FRS, is a South African clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist widely recognized for scientific contributions to HIV prevention and treatment. He is Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, and CAPRISA Professor of Global Health at Columbia University, New York. He is the Chair of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19.
He is an Adjunct Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard University, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Cornell University and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He previously served as President of the South African Medical Research Council.
Dr. Abdool Karim is ranked among the world’s most highly cited scientists by Web of Science. He serves on the Boards of several journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Global Health, Lancet HIV and mBio. He is the Chair of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel and the WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for HIV. He is a member of the WHO TB-HIV Task Force.
His awards include the African Union’s “Kwame Nkrumah Award” Africa’s most prestigious scientific award and the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award. He is member of the US National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Microbiology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.