Professor Sir Alimuddin Zumla

Employment

• University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston Associate Professor in International Health
  1992 - 1994
• Hammersmith Hospital and Royal Postgraduate Medical School Senior Registrar and Hon lecturer
  1988 - 1992
• Oldchurch and Rush Green Hospitals NHS Trust Registrar in Infectious diseases and general Medicine
  1987 - 1988
• University College London

Education

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine PhD
  1984 - 1987

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (1272)

• From pandemic preparedness commitments to demonstrable capability: priorities for the 2026 United Nations High-Level Meeting
  International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2026.109131
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• Antibiotic overuse and mortality in patients hospitalised for COVID-19: a global cohort study
  The Lancet Microbe 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2026.101497
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• MERS-CoV in the Middle East and Africa: from surveillance gaps in humans and dromedary camels to One Health frameworks for spillover, prevention, research and response preparedness
  International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2026.109046
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• Operational bottlenecks in the response to Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a call to action
  The Lancet Global Health 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.langlo.2026.104066
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• Epidemiology and phylogenomic characterisation of the 2025 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Bulape, Kasaï province, Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective observational study.
  The Lancet Microbe 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2026.101522
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• Burden of non-communicable diseases and their attributable risk factors in Africa from 1990 to 2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.
  The Lancet Global Health 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.langlo.2026.103964
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• Integrating responders' mental health into the Ebola outbreak response
  The Lancet 2026 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(26)01738-1
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• Embedding social and behavioural science across and beyond Ebola clinical trials: a critical research priority
  The Lancet Global Health 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.langlo.2026.104077
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• Epidemiological characteristics and transmission dynamics of mpox in Bujumbura, Burundi, 2024
  Journal of Infection and Public Health 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2026.103314
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• Measuring the composition and availability of human resources for health by sex in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2023, and workforce gaps for universal health coverage: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  Megan Knight, Kelly Bienhoff, A. Bhoomadevi +97 more
  The Lancet Public Health 2026 DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(26)00145-3
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• Rebuilding community trust after attacks on Ebola treatment facilities in DRC: lessons from previous epidemics
  International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2026.108837
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• Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda: moving from outbreak response to planetary health preparedness
  The Lancet Planetary Health 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanplh.2026.101508
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• Recurrent Ebola outbreaks: reframing spillover from pathogen-centred narratives to ecological disruption, structural vulnerability, and proactive preparedness
  The Lancet Microbe 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2026.101489
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• Global Burden of Elevated LDL-C Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  GBD 2023 LDL Cholesterol Collaborators, Christian Razo, Nicole K. DeCleene +97 more
  Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2026 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2026.8628
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• Ebola at 50-Lessons for Outbreak Response and Preparedness
  New England Journal of Medicine 2026 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2607819
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• Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  Jorge R Ledesma, Meixin Zhang, Mei Fong Liew +97 more
  The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2026 DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(26)00295-1
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• Imaging Modalities in Tuberculosis
  Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine 2026 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041827
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• Lethal hantavirus at sea: Infectious disease outbreaks on cruise ships and limits of preparedness
  Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2026.102989
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• Advances in development of tuberculosis vaccines and preventive drug therapies: current pipeline, evidence, and access
  The Lancet Microbe 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2026.101443
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• Preparing Europe for Recurrent Autochthonous Dengue Transmission: Public Health Implications and Preparedness Priorities
  The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2026.101758
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