Professor Tazeen Jafar

Professor Tazeen H. Jafar is a distinguished physician scientist and global health leader with a tenured position in the Program in Health Services and Systems Research at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. She simultaneously holds several positions including Visiting Consultant Renal Medicine at Singapore General Hospital, a Visiting Professor of Medicine at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, a Consultant Nephrologist at Durham VA Healthcare System, and Professor Global Health at Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC. With a career spanning over 25 years, Professor Jafar is recognized for her pioneering research in chronic non-communicable diseases in global health settings. Her pioneering COBRA trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrated the effectiveness of a community health worker-led intervention in controlling blood pressure. This landmark study has significant implications for scalability and affordability.