Professor Fatima Suleman

Fatima Suleman is Research Professor in the School of Health Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Evidence Based Practice. She is also an Honorary Professor, and previously the Prince Claus Chair of Development and Equity for the theme Affordable (Bio) Therapeutics for Public Health (2016-2018) Faculty of Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her main research interest is how to make medicines more widely available in her native South Africa and other developing countries. She served on the National South Africa Pricing Committee (2010-2020). She is a member for the African Forum on Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth). She has served on a number of WHO committees over the years, including the Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines.