Data@Breakfast: The South African Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

You are invited to the next data@breakfast for 2020 given by  Prof. Salim Abdool Karim (FRS). His talk is titled:

 “The South African Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Prof. Salim S. Abdool Karim, FRS, is a South African clinical infectious disease epidemiologist who is widely recognized for his scientific contributions to HIV prevention and treatment. He is Director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and CAPRISA Professor of Global Health in Epidemiology at Columbia University. He is also Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Associate Member of The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University. He has adjunct professorships at Cornell and Harvard universities. He has served as the President of the South African Medical Research Council and is currently serving as the Chair of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID 19.

Dr Abdool Karim is ranked among the World’s most 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, WHO’s HIV Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee as well as the WHO TB-HIV Task Force and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

His many awards include the African Union’s “Kwame Nkrumah Award”, the most prestigious scientific award in Africa and the Canadian Gairdner Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the US National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Microbiology and the Association of American Physicians.

The event will be hosted via Zoom.

Register here for this webinar