Kogieleum Naidoo,
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, PhD, is the clinical head of
the HIV and TB Treatment Research Program at the Centre of the AIDS Programme
of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), and Honorary Associate Professor in the
College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Her contribution to HIV and TB treatment spans over two decades. She has led PI
on several CAPRISA studies that have shaped both local and international
guidelines on TB-HIV treatment integration. She has been a lead investigator in
several Phase II and III TB-HIV and drug resistant-TB treatment trials. These
include several international, multicentred, multi-country collaborative
clinical trials. She has supervised post-doctoral, doctoral, and master’s
candidates, authored peer-reviewed publications, and co-authored chapters in
several global health books. She is the editor of the Casebook, Radiological
Features of TB in HIV Co-infected Patients. In 2013, she received the Union
Scientific Prize for her scientific contributions in TB awarded by the
International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
Rubeshan Perumal (MBChB, MMed, MPhil, MPH, PhD) is a pulmonologist at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine and senior scientist at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa.
Anou M. Somboro (PharmD, MSc, PhD) currently works at the College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He does research in Bio-analytical, Pharmacology, Biochemistry,and Pharmaceutical Microbiology. His current projects include: hunting for adjuvants that can modulate or synergize the efficacy of approved antibiotics to combat multi-drug resistant bacteria; drug design, development, and discovery; evidence-informed strategies for the prevention and containment of antibiotic resistance based on the surveillance of antibiotic use and resistance in human, animal, and environmental health (One Health); molecular epidemiology of antibiotic resistance; phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of antibiotic resistance.
