Professor Salome Charalambous is the Group Chief Health Officer at the Aurum Institute in South Africa. She is a medical doctor trained at Wits University with an MSc and PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.  

She has been involved in TB and HIV programme implementation and research since 1998, and has published over 180 papers in the areas of TB case finding, TBHIV integration, TB treatment and HIV programme management. From 2003 – 2010, she led an HIV programme implementation, including ARV rollout, in settings with private practitioners, mining companies, public sector hospitals and correctional services.

Following this period, she focused on research including a number of large cluster-randomised studies and some Phase II clinical trials. Currently she leads a multi-country EDCTP grant that is evaluating strategies for TB contact tracing in South Africa, Lesotho and Tanzania and another multi-country consortium on Post-TB lung disease including four African countries and two European partners. On the policy front, I have provided technical support to the TB M&E unit at the South African National Department of Health and served as the head of the Secretariat for the National TB Think Tank.

She holds joint appointments as Associate Professor at Wits University, where she currently supervises eight PhD students. She is also Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health, Yale University and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University.