Lloyd Mulenga Prof. Lloyd B. Mulenga (BScHb, MBChB, MSc, MMed, PhD) is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases (ID) Physician currently serving as Director of Infectious Diseases for the Ministry of Health and the ID division of the University of Zambia (UNZA) School of Medicine (SOM) and its accredited teaching hospital, the University Teaching Hospital (UTH). He is the lead physician for the COVID clinical response and currently serves on the 1) United States National Institute of Health (NIH) Data and Safety Monitoring Boards Division of AIDS National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 2) WHO Guidelines Development Group 3) WHO HIV Drug Resistance Network (HIVResNet) and 4) WHO Tropical Diseases Research (TDR) Joint Coordinating Board.
His research focuses on 1) HIV and clinical outcomes 2) HIV drug resistance and 3) HIV and non-communicable diseases (kidney, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes) and 4) Infectious diseases epidemiology and clinical outcomes including SARS-CoV-2, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis. He has authored a number of publications in peer reviewed journals on the same subjects.