Shabir Ahmed Madhi
National Health Laboratory Service
Shabir Ahmed Madhi, is a South African physician who is professor of vaccinology and director of the South African Medical Research Council Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, and National Research Foundation/Department of Science and Technology Research Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases. In January 2021, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Shabir Ahmed Madhi, is a South African physician who is professor of vaccinology and director of the South African Medical Research Council Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, and National Research Foundation/Department of Science and Technology Research Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases. In January 2021, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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National Health Laboratory Service
Top Publications
- Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK (2020) - 5,027 citations
- Global burden of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2010) - 2,843 citations
- Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children in 2015: a systematic review and modelling study (2017) - 2,502 citations
- Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in 2019: a systematic analysis (2022) - 2,037 citations
- Early Antiretroviral Therapy and Mortality among HIV-Infected Infants (2008) - 1,443 citations
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- Full name
- Shabir Ahmed Madhi
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-7629-0636
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5071188493
Research interests
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Bacterial Infections and Vaccines, Respiratory viral infections research, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Neonatal and Maternal Infections
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- Early Antiretroviral Therapy and Mortality among HIV-Infected Infants ↗2008 · New England Journal of Medicine1,443OpenAlex citations
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- Early Antiretroviral Therapy and Mortality among HIV-Infected Infants ↗2008 · New England Journal of Medicine
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