Keertan mentors Masters, PhD, and post doctoral trainees, and teaches on specific courses at the LSHTM. From a global health perspective, he has established an international collaborative network and a research programme in which several Masters and PhD students are currently enrolled. He is currently or has previously been involved in several capacity building-related global health programmes including those with UCL, New York University (NYU), South Western Medical School (Dallas), AIIMS (New Delhi, India), SVIMS (Tirupati, India), McGill (Canada), and several African (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana and Malawi) and European countries (UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands).

Selected teaching and training activities:

i) A masters student in Infectious Diseases (Taeuk Kang) completed his research project and submitted his dissertation recently.

ii) Three LSHTM postdoctoral scientists are being trained through ongoing collaborative projects.

iii) Keertan lectured on the MSc in TB Immunology course (2 lectures).

iv) He is an advisor on the LSHTM Genomics course run by Professor Taane Clark.

v) A scientist from UCT (Dr Pooran; funded by an EU grant) will undergo training in sequencing and bio-informatics at the LSHTM.

vi) Two UCT scientists (Drs Pooran and Londt) are part of the Wellcome Human Challenge Model working group (the major UK MRC grant is held at

the LSHTM).