Willem Hanekom

Willem Hanekom is director of the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He currently holds professor positions at University College London, University of Cape Town and University of Washington. 

Willem has previously led the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative at the University of Cape Town and the TB vaccine program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  

He is the previous chair of the South African Immunology Society and the Federation of African Immunology Societies, and is a member of multiple international advisory committees in tuberculosis, vaccinology and translational immunology.