Abdool Karims Receive Prestigious Global Health Award

Monday, April 27, 2020

AAS Fellows and Epidemiologists Salim Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim, professors at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, were named the 2020 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award laureates for their outstanding achievements in global health research. The Gairdner Foundation recognizes some of the world‘s most significant biomedical research and discoveries.

The Abdool Karims received the award “for their discovery that antiretrovirals prevent sexual transmission of HIV, which laid the foundations for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the HIV prevention strategy that is contributing to the reduction of HIV infection in Africa and around the world,” according to a news item on the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) website.Read more ...