Eleni Aklillu is a Professor of Tropical Pharmacology, senior research scientist, and research group leader at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She is a pioneer in leading major clinical pharmacology and pharmacogenetics research projects focusing on poverty-related infectious diseases including HIV, tuberculosis, Malaria, and various Neglected tropical diseases in low-middle income countries (https://staff.ki.se/people/eleakl). She has received several major external research grants in competition as principal investigators from various national and international research funding agencies. Currently, she is a principal investigator and coordinator of a 5-year multinational project entitled PROFORMA (https://proforma.ki.se) – focusing on pharmacovigilance, and medicine regulatory capacity-building in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda. Aklillu supervised > 17 completed PhDs and is currently supervising 10 PhD students from Africa working on various Global Health clinical pharmacology research projects (https://ki.se/en/labmed/research-group-eleni-aklillu). She is author of > 130 original peer-reviewed publications. Professor Aklillu is a board member of the Swedish research council’s scientific advisory committee for development research, a fellow of Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh (FRCPE), a fellow of African Academy of Science (FAAS), a former vice-chair and member of the Strategic Advisory Committee for European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP).