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Lifetime achievement award
UKZNdaba. Republished courtesy of UKZNdaba.
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Academic, scientist and human rights activist, Professor Hoosen Coovadia was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in India in March for his invaluable contribution towards clinical practice and medical education. The award was presented by the 2006 HIV congress in Mumbai.
In his acceptance address Professor Coovadia said: ?“I am pleased to receive this award not only for myself but for all the individuals who worked with me in research (because research is most often a collective effort) and in teaching (which is always a joint effort by many teachers). I also am especi-ally gratified for this honour you have done me because of the long history of brotherhood between our two countries; this was particularly appreciated during the dark apartheid years when India supported the liberation of my country at every international and other forum.?”
Professor Hoosen Coovadia the Victor Daitz Chair in HIV/AIDS Medicine and Scientific Director of the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, is a distinguished academic whose primary fields of expertise are Paediatric Nephrology, Infectious Diseases and Nutritional Diseases, Professor Coovadia has published prolifically, leads a range of research programmes, advisory groups and development trusts, and is involved in numerous multidisciplinary activities, development initiatives and health policy formulation. He is internationally recognised for his groundbreaking research in HIV/AIDS transmission from mother to child, especially through breast-feeding and is the Protocol Chair for HIVNET 023 and HPTN 046.
Professor Coovadia has received numerous accolades and awards. He was elected as a Fellow of the University in 1995 and was awarded an honorary DSc by the University of Durban-Westville and the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1999 President Nelson Mandela honoured him with the Star of South Africa for his contribution to democracy and health and he received a silver medal from the Medical Research Council for excellence in research. In 2000 he received the International Association of Physicians in AIDS and Care Award, the Heroes in Medicine Award in Toronto, Canada, the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights and he was elected a Foreign Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, USA ?– an honour that is seldom awarded.
He is particularly committed to developing research capacity, having supervised over 40 post-graduate students and taught in the medical, nursing and allied health professions for more than 20 years. His research output is exceptional ?– he has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles in peer reviewed journals, many of them leading international journals. He is co-editor of the textbook Paediatrics and Child Health, which is widely used by medical students and junior doctors throughout South Africa. |
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