Dr. Khumbo Kalua

Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC

Dr. Khumbo Kalua’s research focuses on Global Health, Global Eye Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD), within the context of Social Determinants of Health and Universal Health Coverage. He has over 20 years’ experience working in the academic, government and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).

Dr. Kalua has a special interest in low-income countries and focuses on his research mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Current work focuses on epidemiology and elimination of Trachoma, Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis and Schistosomiasis, and global blindness prevention programs, and contributes to the global goal of ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

He is a qualitative and mixed methodologist with an interdisciplinary background that spans Implementation Science, Cluster Randomized Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Global Eye Health, and general Global Health.

He has been a consultant on Neglected Tropical diseases and Global Eye Health for the World Health Organization (WHO) and many other organizations for many years, and as part of his work, he has extensively travelled to all continents of the world visiting over 20 countries.