Prof. Thirusha Naidu is a clinical psychologist in the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health and Associate professor at the Nelson R Mandela Medical School at the university of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Prof Naidu is one of the inaugural 2019 Fellows for the Karolinska Institute Prize for Research in Medical Education (KIPRIME).
She is invited junior faculty on Karolinska PRIME Fellows programme in 2022. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Department of Medical Education, Duke University Global Health Humanities Programme and the University of Toronto Wilson Center. She is a member of the Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative, a globally diverse medical education research initiative exploring global medical education.
Her published works have appeared in the Academic Medicine, Advances in Health Sciences Education and the Lancet Global Health. She collaborates with medical education scholars from the United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Her 2021 plenary address at the Research in Medical Education (RIME) at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting explored equity, diversity, inclusion and antiracism.
She will give a plenary address on political and personal intersections in equity, social justice and medical education at AMEE2022 in Lyon, France.