Keertan Dheda MBBCh (Wits), FCP(SA), FCCP, PhD (Lond), FRCP (Lond), born in 1969, is a Professor of Mycobacteriology and Global health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) with an extra-mural joint appointment at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where he is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine. He is a global research leader in TB diagnosis and transmission, having published over 320 peer-reviewed papers, with a Google h-index of 87 and Scopus h-Index of 70 (As of 2022).