Robin Wood

CEO, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation & Director, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, & Full Member, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Faculty of Health Sciences, UCT; Visiting Scientist, Harvard Medical School; Honorary Professor, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; Research Fellow, University of Stellenbosch.

Current research projects: TB diagnostics in HIV, TB transmission in African township, modeling of TB epidemic as function of force of TB infection, extension of Wells and Riley model to generalized TB epidemic and non-steady state conditions by quantitation of daily rebreathed litres. Aerobiology of TB transmission: PI of the Cape Town Clinical Trials Unit; site leader for the Desmond Tutu HIV Clinical Research Site where he leads a scientific research group of the Medical Research Council/University of Cape Town flagship programme investigating the aerobiology of tuberculosis transmission.

Education

• DTM&H University of Liverpool
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) University of London
• B.M., B.Ch University of Oxford

Companies

• Professor University of Cape Town (1996)
• Infectious Disease Fellow Stanford University School of Medicine (1990 — 1993)