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Principal Investigator Profile Khatija Ahmed is a principal investigator on the Population Council’s Phase 3 Carraguard® clinical trial. Ahmed was a senior lecturer and consultant in the department of medical microbiology at the Medical University of Southern Africa (MEDUNSA) where the Carraguard Phase 2 clinical trial was conducted. She currently oversees and coordinates the Phase 3 trial at the Setshaba Research Centre in Soshanguve, Pretoria, managing all site-related issues and working closely with the principal investigators of the two other sites and the Population Council team in New York City. Ahmed is a clinical microbiologist with an interest in sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and tuberculosis. She is a consultant in the department of medical microbiology at the University of Limpopo/Medunsa campus (formerly MEDUNSA) and was involved in the restructuring of the tuberculosis laboratory. She also worked closely with the staff in the microbiology laboratory at MEDUNSA. As part of the National Health Laboratory staff she provided diagnostic and consultancy services in microbiology to the clinicians at the George Mukhari Hospital. At MEDUNSA she was actively involved in teaching undergraduate medical and dental students and supervising postgraduate students in microbiology. In 2003 she was the principal investigator for the study “Enhanced surveillance for trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole resistant invasive and diarrhoeal disease in South Africa” and a co-investigator for “An open-label noncomparative study of the safety and efficacy of intravenous anidulafungin plus ambisome as a treatment for invasive aspergillosis.” Ahmed received her B.Sc. degree in 1980 (University of Westville) and her MBChB in 1985 (University of Natal). She worked as a medical officer in private practice and at Kalafong Hospital from 1987 to 1997. She received her postgraduate degree in microbiology (Fellow of the College of Pathology of South Africa) in 2000 and her master’s in microbiology in 2001 (MEDUNSA). See Also
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