Anatoli Kamali, PhD
IAVI Regional Director Africa
Anatoli is currently the Regional Director – Africa for the International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He trained at Makerere University in
Medicine and Surgery and also holds Master of Science at the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and PhD in Public Health from the City
University, UK. Kamali is also an Honorary Professor, Department of Infectious
Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Previously he was the Deputy Director and Head of HIV Epidemiology and
Prevention Programme, MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, and Head of
Department of Epidemiology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe.
Anatoli has been involved in HIV/AIDS research since 1989, and he has led several prevention studies
including early HIV vaccine trials, Ebola vaccine trials, phase III microbicide trial s; prophylactic trials
among HIV infected individuals, HIV epidemiological studies in general populations and high risk cohorts
(female sex workers and fishing communities).
He participates in several international scientific collaborations with institutions in the UK, USA and
Africa. He was a member of the UK Microbicides Development Programme (MDP) that conducted a
large efficacy and safety phase III microbicide trial for vaginally acquired HIV infection. He has served on
several scientific boards for international organizations such as the WHO, UNAIDS, International
Partnership for Microbicides, and Data and Safety Monitoring Board for the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases Division of AIDS (NIAID) Vaccine and Prevention. He has published over 100
scientific peer reviewed articles and book chapters.