Nombulelo Magula is the Head of Division of Internal Medicine and leader of the clinical team at Clairwood hospital, Durban, South Africa. Born and bred in the township of KwaMashu, in Durban, she completed her BSc (Chemistry) at the University of Cape Town and Medicine at the Medical University of Southern Africa, followed by Specialist training in Internal Medicine at King Edward hospital and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Prof Magula was subsequently awarded the Fogarty Fellowship to study MSc in Clinical research at the New England Medical Center and Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She completed her PhD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal studying metabolic complications of Antiretroviral therapy in a South African black population funded by the Discovery Foundation and the South African Medical Research Council.
Prof Magula has served as a Senate Representative on the University of KwaZulu-Natal Council, a member of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid-19 and Chaired the Clinical Management Committee for Covid-19 for the Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Prof Magula served as a member of the South African Delegation, under the International Visitor Leadership Program, hosted by the US Government to the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control, USA on the Global Health Security Agenda. She is passionate about empowering communities through education.
She is a mother of three daughters, an avid runner and enjoys gardening.
