Malegapuru William Makgoba (born 1952 in Sekhukhune, South Africa) is a South African immunologist, physician, public health advocate, academic and vice-chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Achievements of Professor William Makgoba
Makgoba received an MBChB degree from the University of Natal Medical School in 1976 and a DPhil degree in human immunogenetics from the University of Oxford in 1983. In 1999 he edited African Renaissance, a book recording the September 1998 Johannesburg conference on the African Renaissance. He has received many awards and distinctions including the 2002 Science for Society gold medal of the Academy of Science.
Makgoba is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal Society of South Africa. He is also a foreign associate member of the United States National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the College of Physicians of South Africa.
Academic career of Prof William Makgoba
Makgoba was appointed the first black deputy vice-chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1995. Makgoba left Wits University to join the South African Medical Research Council. He headed the South African Medical Research Council between 1999 and 2002 and was involved in developing South Africa’s AIDS strategy and the SA AIDS Vaccine Initiative. He was appointed the principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Natal on 1 September 2002, months after it was announced that the university would merge with the University of Durban-Westville in the future.
Makgoba continued with his position on the interim council during the merger, which was official on 1 January 2004. His position was confirmed upon the creation of the founding council of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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