Professor Daar was the founding chair of the Board of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases[5] (2009-2011) and Founding Chair of the advisory board of the United Nations University International Institute of Global Health.
[7] Professor Daar is a Permanent Visiting Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.
[8] After medical schools in Uganda and London, England, he went to the University of Oxford, where he did post-graduate clinical training in surgery and also in internal medicine, a doctorate (DPhil) in Transplant Immunology, and a fellowship in organ transplantation.
Professor Daar's academic career has spanned biomedical sciences, organ transplantation, surgery, global health,[10] and bioethics.
He has worked in various advisory or consulting capacities with the UN, the World Health Organization, and UNESCO.