Medical epidemiologist, HIV Care and Treatment Branch of the Division of Global HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, CDC Division of Global HIV & TB
Dr. Zulu is a medical epidemiologist on the Adult HIV Treatment Team, HIV Care and Treatment Branch (HCTB), Division of Global HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he co-leads the Linkage Retention and Service Delivery Unit of the HCTB. Dr. Zulu is also a member of the CQUIN Advisory Group.
Dr. Zulu is also a member of the Epidemic Control Leadership Team under the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), where he assists in the development of strategies policy direction to achieve HIV epidemic control in PEPFAR-supported countries. He was previously the chief of the Prevention, Care, and Treatment Branch at the CDC office in Lusaka, Zambia, where he oversaw the scale-up of the country’s HIV treatment program. Dr. Zulu served as clinical chair (2004-2006) and consultant attending physician (1999-2006) in the Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. He was an honorary lecturer in internal medicine at the University of Zambia, School of Medicine from 1999-2010.
Dr. Zulu trained as a medical doctor graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Zambia in 1989. He has specialty training in internal medicine with a Master’s of Medicine in Internal Medicine from the University of Zambia, and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in Gastroenterology from Queen Mary College, University of London, United Kingdom (2008). He obtained his Master’s of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the U.S. in 2002.