Shaheed Omar

Shaheed Omar, PhD is an International Collaborator in the CPS Core of TRAC, as well as Medical Lead of the National Institue for Communicable Diseases in South Africa. Specifically, he leads the research program at the Center for Tuberculosis. His current research focus includes; evaluation of new technologies for detection and drug resistance prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, establishment of breakpoints and critical concentrations for diagnostic laboratory phenotypic drug susceptibility testing of new and repurposed TB drugs, drug-resistance, surveillance and latent tuberculosis. He is also a Joint Lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand and Extra-ordinary Lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria in South Africa.