Alimuddin Zumla
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| Born | Alimuddin Zumla 15 May 1955 Fort Jameson, Northern Rhodesia |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields |
Medicine Tuberculosis Global health |
| Institutions |
University College London UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Alma mater |
University of Zambia London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Royal Postgraduate Medical School University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Thesis | Characterisation of human monoclonal antibodies to phenolic glycolipid -1 from patients with leprosy : and production of their anti-idiotypes (1987) |
| Doctoral advisors | Keith McAdam David Isenburg |
| Known for |
Tuberculosis research Tropical medicine Infectious diseases Mass-gathering medicine |
| Notable awards |
2016: HONORARY DOCTORATE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET 2015: CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CLASS RESEARCH 2014: DONALD MACKAY MEDAL 2013: UK TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION AWARD 2013: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2012: ORDER OF THE GRAND COMMANDER OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICES 2012: KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET SCIENCE AWARD 2011: WHO STOP TB PARTNERSHIP, KOCHON FOUNDATION PRIZE AND MEDAL 2011: SPINOZA LEERSTOEL AWARD 2008: UK-NHS ACCEA PLATINUM AWARD 2000: THE ALBERT CHALMERS MEDAL 1999: WEBER-PARKES TRUST MEDAL |
| Spouse | Farzana Bhuta |
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Website http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/people/steering-group/ali-zumla |
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Alimuddin Zumla BSc MB ChB MSc PhD FRCP(UK) FRCPath(UK) FRSB(UK) is a British Zambian professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London Medical School. He specialises in infectious and tropical diseases, clinical immunology, and internal medicine, with a special interest in HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, and diseases of poverty. He is internationally renowned for his extensive outputs and leadership of infectious/tropical diseases research and capacity development activities.
Alimuddin (Ali) Zumla was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Chipata, Eastern Province, Zambia). His parents Haji Ismail and Hajiani Aman Zumla were of Gujarati Indian origin. He did his early education at the Lotus Primary School and Prince Philip Secondary School (now Kamwala Secondary School) in Lusaka, and his medical training at the University of Zambia's School of Medicine.
He turned down a Rhodes Scholarship to remain in Zambia for his first degree because of his firm belief that training in Zambia would give him first-hand experience of important killer infectious diseases. In 1980, he moved to London to pursue an MSc in tropical medicine at the University of London. In 1982, he contracted life-threatening tuberculous meningitis, and was told that he would never walk again, but went on to make a remarkable recovery and return to work a year and a half later to a star-studded career despite disabling and painful neurological sequelae resulting from his meningitis.
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