Salim S. Abdool Karim is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Cornell University, and Director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). He is a clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist with research interests in microbicides and vaccines to prevent HIV infection and in implementing antiretroviral therapy in resource-constrained settings. Dr. Abdool Karim is Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group for Reproductive Health at the World Health Organization. He served on the NEJM Journal Watch AIDS Clinical Care Editorial Board from 2001 until the publication's closure in 2014. Dr. Abdool Karim was a member of the NEJM Journal Watch Infectious Diseases Editorial Board from 2014 through 2019.

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