{"id":28377,"date":"2021-02-16T14:03:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.science\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=28377"},"modified":"2025-01-31T11:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:14:54","slug":"salim-abdool-karim","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/council.science\/profile\/salim-abdool-karim\/","title":{"rendered":"Salim Abdool Karim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involvement at the ISC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ISC Vice-President for Membership (2022 &#8211; 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ISC Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/fellows\">Fellow<\/a> (June 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member of the Oversight panel of the ISC project <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/our-work\/covid-19-scenarios\/\">COVID-19 and implications for national and global policy.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>He is an Adjunct Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard University, Boston, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Cornell University, New York, and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. He is an Associate Member of The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University. He previously served as President of the South African Medical Research Council and is currently serving as the Co-Chair of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 and as a Member of the Africa Task Force for Coronavirus and the Lancet Commission on COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Abdool Karim is ranked among the world\u2019s most highly cited scientists by <em>Web of Science<\/em>. He serves on the Boards of several journals, including the <em>New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet <\/em>Global Health, <em>Lancet <\/em>HIV and <em>mBio<\/em>. He is the Chair of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel, WHO\u2019s HIV Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee as well as the WHO TB-HIV Task Force. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His many awards include the African Union\u2019s \u201cKwame Nkrumah Award\u201d which is Africa\u2019s most prestigious scientific award, the Kuwait Al-Sumait Award, the Canadian Gairdner Global Health Award and pinnacle awards from the African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Science in South Africa, Royal Society of South Africa and the South African Medical Research Council. He is member of the US National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Microbiology and the Association of American Physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, Prof Abdool Karim was honoured with a prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/laskerfoundation.org\/winners\/innovations-in-hiv-prevention-treatment-and-advocacy\/\">Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award<\/a>&nbsp;for illuminating key drivers of heterosexual HIV transmission and introducing life-saving approaches to prevent and treat HIV.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This page was updated in January 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Involvement at the ISC \u00a0 Background He is an Adjunct Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard University, Boston, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[214,89,540],"region":[3,319],"tag":[],"class_list":["post-28377","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","tag-covid19","tag-health-and-wellbeing","tag-medicine","region-roa","region-north-america"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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