Keith McAdam is a renowned expert in tropical diseases and a former Scottish cricketer. Born on August 13, 1945, in Edinburgh, Scotland, McAdam grew up in Uganda where his father was a professor of surgery. He studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge, and later became an eminent physician specializing in tropical diseases. McAdam is the founding director of the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, which he established in 2001 through a public-private partnership. He has played a key role in building the IDI into a centre of excellence for training, clinical care, and research, particularly in the area of HIV infection. McAdam is also an associate international director at the Royal College of Physicians in London and has held various leadership positions in the field of global health. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and the founder of the charity “Music for my Mind,” which uses music to help dementia patients.