Rubeshan Perumal

Dr Rubeshan Perumal (MBChB, MPH, MMed, MPhil, FCP(SA), Cert Pulmonology (SA), PhD) is a Pulmonologist and Senior Scientist at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he leads portfolios in both COVID-19, tuberculosis, and HIV research. He holds master’s degrees in Public Health (MPH in Epidemiology), Medicine (MMed in Internal Medicine), and Pulmonology (MPhil in Pulmonology) and is currently completing a PhD focused on the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic optimisation of tuberculosis treatment. 

Dr Perumal is a past recipient of the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholarship and was named a Global Young Physician Leader by the InterAcademy Partnership. He was a founding consultant of the post-COVID-19 lung disease clinical service and research programme at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity and has been a panellist on the WHO Working Group on Care Pathways for Long COVID.