 Aderem serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; the Science Steering Committee of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise; and as an advisory board member for the NIH LIPID MAPS Consortium.Aderem served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute-funded KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (KRITH).He was appointed Chair of the Parliamentary Review Commission of the Medical Research Council of South Africa in 1996 and 2001, and serves as a scientific advisor to the South African government.