Dr. June Fabian

June Fabian is a South African nephrologist and academic leader at the University of the Witwatersrand, closely associated with the Wits Transplant Unit. Her work spans chronic kidney disease, transplantation, and cardiovascular risk in African populations, with a strong commitment to context-specific evidence that informs clinical practice and public health policy.

Her recent scholarship highlights population-level salt reduction and its effects on blood pressure, evaluation of creatinine-based GFR equations, and urinary proteomics for earlier CKD detection in Black South Africans. She also contributes to major HIV cohort analyses, clarifying links between weight gain, kidney function, and hypertension, underscoring intersections between infectious and non-communicable diseases.

In transplantation, her research addresses donor type and graft outcomes, pharmacogenomics of tacrolimus in paediatric liver recipients, and long-term single-centre experience in kidney and liver transplantation. Across these themes, her work advances precision medicine and equitable kidney care in sub-Saharan Africa, shaping both clinical protocols and national health discourse.