Graeme Meintjes is a Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He is an adult Infectious Diseases Specialist. He leads a research programme that focuses on the clinical conditions affecting patients with advanced HIV disease including disseminated HIV-associated tuberculosis, the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome and cryptococcal meningitis. His group also investigates drug-resistant tuberculosis, diagnostics for TB and antiretroviral therapy strategies. He has been the PI or local PI of several clinical trials and conducts observational cohort studies that address questions related to disease pathogenesis. He has contributed to the development of management guidelines for HIV, TB and cryptococcal meningitis at a provincial and national level and in WHO Guideline Development Groups. He previously held the SARChI Chair of Poverty-related Infections at UCT (2015 to 2023) and was the Second Chair and Deputy Head of the Department of Medicine at UCT (2020 to 2024). He has over 370 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has been an author or co-author on 17 book chapters.
