First Malaysian in Global Commission on Drug Policy is Dr Adeeba

A cut above: Dr Adeeba now heads the nation’s Global Commission on Drug Policy.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s renowned infectious disease expert Prof Datuk Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman is now the country’s first commissioner of the Global Commission on Drug Policy.

Prof Adeeba, who is also the director of the Centre of Excellence for Research on AIDS (Ceria), Universiti Malaya and chairman of the Malaysian AIDS Foundation (MAF), served as the first Asian president at the International AIDS society and was the co-chair of the World Health Organisation (WHO) strategic and technical advisory committee on HIV.