THE BOARD OF CONTROL ( view all ) Professor Ahmed Bawa is a theoretical physicist. Until August 2010 he was a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter College and a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. David A. Clark, MD, BCom, MBA is the Executive Director of Operations at the Aurum Institute for Health Research. He was part of executive and clinical management of hospitals and health services in the gold subsidiary of the Anglo American group up until 2004 before moving to the Aurum Institute Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH is a leader in the fields of epidemiology and geriatrics. She has dedicated her career to the science of healthy aging, particularly the prevention of frailty and disability, and design of approaches that will strengthen the benefits to all of being an aging society. Professor Nelson Ijumba graduated from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with first class honours degree in Electrical Engineering. Prof Shabir Madhi received his Master’s degree in Paediatrics and his Ph.D. degree in Health Sciences from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a certified infectious disease specialist and currently holds the position of DST/NRF Research Chair for Vaccine Preventable Disease, Executive Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases at NHLS, and Professor of Vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Suresh Naidoo is a Chartered Accountant who completed his Bachelor of Accountancy and Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting at the University of Durban Westville (now UKZN). He qualified as a Chartered Accountant after completing his training at Deloitte and Touché in 1990. At the end of his training contract Suresh joined a client of Deloitte and Touché, Robertson’s as project accountant and was promoted to company accountant after a year
Professor Visser is professor of private law at UCT and a recipient of a National Research Foudation A2 rating. He was educated in South Africa and the Netherlands, obtaining doctorates in law from Pretoria University in 1980 and the University of Leiden in 1985 After qualifying as an advocate, Pius Langa joined the Natal Bar in 1977 and practiced from chambers in Durban. He attained Senior Counsel status in January 1994. His work has consisted largely of political trials and working with poor communities and organisations committed to the struggle for justice and democracy. He was founder member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADEL), and served as its president for six years. SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD ( view all ) A fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Canada and former President of the Canadian Association for HIV Research Dr SM Dhlomo a Medical Practitioner; a Provincial Executive Member of the ANC in KZN, the MEC for Health of KwaZulu-Natal. He received his medical degree from the University of Natal, Durban in 1985. He later pursued further studies in psychology and sociology. In order to spearhead a holistic treatment and management of clinical processes, he further attained post graduate accolades in public health as well as strategic and project management.
Dr. Gabelnick joined CONRAD at its inception in 1986 and has been its director since 1990. He is also a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at EVMS. Des Martin, MBBCh, MMed (Virol), FCPath(SA), DTM&H, DPH, was formerly Deputy Director of the National Institute for Virology, Head of the Medical Research Council AIDS Virus Research Unit, Senior Lecturer... Dr. Yiming Shao is the Chief Expert of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention (NCAIDS) and Director of the Department of the Research on Virology and Immunology, NCAIDS, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He has worked in AIDS research and control in China since the mid-1980s, with emphasis on HIV/AIDS prevention and control, HIV vaccines, and molecular epidemiology studies. F. Gray Handley is the as associate director for international research affairs and acting director, Office of Global Research at the National Institutes for Health Dr Ying-Ru Lo is an infectious disease physician from Hamburg, Germany who took up her duties in the WHO HIV/AIDS Department to lead WHO's global HIV prevention programme in late in 2007. THE CAPRISA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ( view all ) Salim S. Abdool Karim is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Director of CAPRISA - Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa. He is also Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Cornell University and Associate Member of The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University. Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD, is an infectious diseases epidemiologist whose main current research interests are in understanding the evolving HIV epidemic in South Africa Dr. Churchyard is a specialist physician, internationally-renowned for his contributions in tuberculosis (TB). He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aurum Institute for Health Research, an independent, not for profit, public benefit organization in South Africa with more than $80 million in grants that focus on TB and HIV service delivery, management and research Hoosen Coovadia, MBBS, MD, is a paediatrician and expert in perinatal HIV transmission. Dr. Coovadia was the Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Natal until 2000, and is now the Victor Daitz Professor for HIV/AIDS research at the University of Natal. Janet Frohlich, DipMGC, BCur (Ed et Ad), D Cur is the Community Programmes Manager and Operations Manager for the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa's (CAPRISA) rural research site in Vulindlela. She coordinated the first South African National STI/HIV/AIDS Review in 1997. Clive Gray, PhD is an immunologist and Head of the CTL laboratory at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. He is Co-Chair of HIVNET 028 a 5 country study on immune responses in acute HIV infection. Ayesha BM Kharsany, PhD, is currently the Head of Microbicide Research at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa. Her main current research interests are in understanding the evolving HIV epidemic in South Africa Daya holds a PhD on Perinatal HIV Transmission and Diagnosis. She works as an associate professor at the Women’s Health and HIV Research Unit of the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine in South Africa. She is also the International Vice-Chairperson of the Perinatal/Maternal Health Scientific Committee of IMPAACT Group.
Lynn Morris, DPhil, is a Chief Specialist Scientist and Head of the AIDS Unit at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Johannesburg. Kogieleum Naidoo, MBChB, Dip HIV Man, is a clinician with extensive experience in clinical infectious disease as well as experience in conducting research into interventions in HIV, both in mother to child transmission as well as treatment of adult HIV infection. Nesri Padayatchi, MD, is the CDC(Durban), Site Manager for the START project of CAPRISA. She has 18 years Clinical and Research experience in the management of Tuberculosis and the related problems. Marian Swart obtained a Diploma in Nursing in 1970. Additional training was amongst others in Management Accounting and Finance, and Project Management. She joined the Centre for Epidemiological Research in South Africa (CERSA) at the Medical Research Council (MRC) in 1988 and in 2001 moved to the University of KwaZulu-Natal Carolyn Williamson, PhD, directs the HIV Viral Diversity and Pathogenesis research program at the Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town. Within CAPRISA she is head of the Diversity Laboratory Core and is protocol co-chair of the Acute HIV Infection Study which aims at understanding HIV acute infection and pathogenesis; as well as defining surrogate markers as vaccine endpoints in subtype C infection. Koleka Mlisana, MBChB, MMedPath(Micro) is the associate professor and Head of Medical Microbiology Dept at the Univ of KwaZulu Natal(UKZN) and National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) Microbiology Lab Academic Complex. She was previously a co-investigator and Project Director of the CAPRISA 004 tenofovir gel trial at the eThekwini site.
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