Kholoud Porter MSc, PhD

Kholoud has worked in HIV since 1986 and leads an epidemiology program of work in HIV research. She gained an MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Ph.D. in AIDS and HIV Infection at UCL estimating the HIV incubation period distribution through a national HIV cohort.

Her main research interests are in HIV natural history and primary HIV infection. Most of her work has been within industrialized country cohorts although she has also co-ordinated a randomized controlled trial recruiting in Uganda and South Africa and within an international consortium evaluating antiretroviral therapy roll-out programs in Africa. She was the Principal Investigator for the UK Register of HIV Seroconverters and CASCADE, an EU-funded collaboration of HIV seroconverter cohorts. CASCADE then became part of a large Network of Excellence, EuroCoord, which she also led.

Kholoud has collaborated widely within the UK and internationally with colleagues in European, Australian, and north American research institutions. She is also Departmental Graduate Tutor.