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HIV Center International Programme Advisor |
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Education and Training
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| 2000
| University of Natal
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| MS
| 1988
| Columbia University
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Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
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| Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD, is an infectious diseases epidemiologist whose main current research interests are in understanding the evolving HIV epidemic in South Africa; factors influencing acquisition of HIV infection in adolescent girls; and sustainable strategies to introduce HAART in resource-constrained settings. She is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology here at the Mailman School of Public Health. In addition, she is the Director of the Columbia-University Southern African Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Programme in Durban, South Africa and is Head of the CAPRISA Woman and AIDS programme. She is also an Associate Professor in Public Health and Family Medicine at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She is an Executive Director of the International Partnership for Microbicides, a newly established not for profit organization to fast track microbicide development and a Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Academic Alliance Foundation. She serves as a temporary consultant to WHO, UNAIDS and UNDP on several HIV/AIDS related expert committees in relation to gender, ethics, vaccines, treatment and research capacity building.
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