Awards and Achievements

2011

Professor Shan Naidoo

Elected as a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (FFPH) through distinction.

2011

Professor Laetitia Rispel

Was inaugurated in the Nurse Researchers Hall of Fame under the auspices of FUNDISA (Forum of University Nursing deans in South Africa). Her citation reads: Between 1988 and 1996, Professor Rispel pioneered a body of policy and health systems research on nursing, including the role of the nurse as an agent of change, nurses’ role in policy and nurses attitudes to different kinds of organisations.

2011

Professor Sharon Fonn & Associate Professor Kathleen Kahn

Won the Vice-Chancellor’s Academic Citizenship Team Award for their work in CARTA.  Recognised that individual African universities and countries lack the requisite human, financial and infrastructural capacity to single-handedly develop globally-competitive doctoral programmes, they worked together with colleagues in Africa to set up the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA). This is a southern-led, but north-south collaboration to rebuild and strengthen the capacity of African universities to produce locally well-trained and skilled researchers.

2010

Dr Elizabeth Kimani

Was the recipient of the Postgraduate Award for the most prestigious PhD thesis for 2010 in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Her thesis was entitled “Exploring the paradox: Double burden of malnutrition in rural South Africa”, investigating the double burden of under-and over-nutrition in a poor, high HIV-prevalent, transitional setting – the Agincourt sub-district, rural South Africa.

2010

Professor Sharon Fonn

Elected Deputy President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in Africa (ASPHA).

2010

Mr Tonderai Mabuto

Awarded the William Harding le Riche Medal, established in 1983, to a postgraduate student in the SPH for a research project in Epidemiology on grounds of excellence. The title of his research report was ‘Comparison of virologic outcomes in HIV-infected adolescents and pre-adolescents on highly active antiretroviral therapy in Soweto, South Africa.

2010

Dr Maphefo Thekiso

Won the Colgate Community Based Research Competition at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) conference held in September.

2010

Dr Maphefo Thekiso

Won the free standing poster competition at the 13^th Gauteng Department of Health Prakash Vallabh Primary Health Care Research Conference 2010.

2010

Dr Geraldine Timothy

Won the prize for best oral presentation in the academic category at the 13^th Gauteng Department of Health Prakash Vallabh primary Health Care Research Conference 2010.  She presented the work she did on the 1^st 100 cases of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009 in South Africa.

2010

MRC/Agincourt/LINC Team

Won the Vice-Chancellor’s Academic Citizenship award to further develop the teaching and citizenship work within the unit.

2009

Mr Pedro Aide

Awarded the William Harding le Riche Medal, established in 1983, to a postgraduate student in the SPH for a research project in Epidemiology on grounds of excellence, His research report using data from Mozambique was awarded a distinction.

2009

Prof Shan Naidoo

Progrund Medal Award for his contribution to transformation.

2009

Mr Peter Nyasulu

School Research Day: Best Oral Presentation (Senior) entitled 'Potential predictors of death in children with Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in South Africa, 2003-2005.

2009

Dr Geraldine Timothy

School Research Day: Best Oral Presentation (Junior) entitled 'An evaluation of laboratory services utilization and practices at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.

2009

Dr Nisha Naicker

School research Day: Best Poster Presentation entitled 'Prenatal and adolescent blood lead levels in South Africa: Child, maternal and household risk factors in the Birth to Twenty Cohort'.

2008

Dr Paul Pronyk

Was a joint winner of the Faculty Research Prize for his paper entitled: Effect of a structural intervention of the prevention of intimate partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa. Oct 2006. The Lancet 368:1973-1983.

2007

Dr Quyen L Duong

Awarded the William Harding le Riche Medal, established in 1983, to a postgraduate student in the SPH for a research project in Epidemiology on grounds of excellence.

2007

Mrs Colleen Cronk

Won the Faculty exceptional service excellence medal in recognition of her contribution to the School of Public Health and the faculty of Health Sciences

2007

Dr Leena Thomas

Won 1st prize at the 10th Prakash Vallabh Research Conference of the GDOH for her oral presentation. Title: Costing of HIV/AIDS services at a tertiary hospital in Gauteng province.

2007

Dr Elvira Singh

Won 2nd prize at the 10th Prakash Vallabh Research Conference of the GDOH for her oral presentation. Title: A review of prevailing literature on MDR-TB.

2007

Dr Ziyanda Vundle

Won 3rd prize at the 10th Prakash Vallabh Research Conference of the GDOH for her oral presentation. Title: Systematic review of the PMTCT programme in Gauteng province.

2007

Dr Andre Rose

Won 3rd prize at the 10th Prakash Vallabh Research Conference of the GDOH for his oral presentation. Title: The evaluation of maternal health in the Johannesburg Health District.

2007

Dr Elvira Singh

Won 1st prize at the 10th Prakash Vallabh Research Conference of the GDOH for her poster presentation. Title: A review of patients seen at the Gynaecological Outpatients Department of Johannesburg Hospital.

2007

Dr Wassila Jassat

Won 2nd prize at the 10th Prakash Vallabh Research Conference of the GDOH for her poster presentation. Title: An evaluation of the performance of a public private partnership (PPP) involving outsourced clinical services.

2007

Dr Geraldine Timothy

Won 3rd prize at the 10th Prakash Vallabh Research Conference of the GDOH for her poster. Title: Evaluation of Johannesburg Hospital outpatient department.

2007

Dr Mary Kawonga

Won one of the prestigious L’Oréal South Africa 2007 Fellowships for Women in Science awards for the category: ‘gender responsive research that impacts on the lives of girls and women in South Africa’. This is a post-graduate fellowship for women scientists who show professional promise in innovative areas of research and recognises outstanding ability and promise in research. It is supported by the South African Initiative, National Commission for UNESCO and the Department of Science and Technology.

2007

Ms Marlise Richter

Won the Discovery Institute Clinical Excellence Award for a poster presentation by a South African Clinician/Practitioner at the 2007 – 3rd South African AIDS Conference 2007 held in Durban in May. The title of her poster was: Unravelling gender and Anti-retroviral Adherence: Signs and Sounds from Africa.

2007

Dr Ruxana Jina

Awarded the William Harding le Riche Medal, established in 1983, to a postgraduate student in the SPH for a research project in Epidemiology on grounds of excellence.

2006

Professor Mary Ross

Elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (UK)

2006

Professor Mary Ross

Received the Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and made a founding Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

2006

Professor Mary Ross

Received the Fellowship of the College of Public Health Medicine (Occupational Medicine) by peer review.

2006

Dr Shobna Chauhan

Awarded the William Harding le Riche Medal, established in 1983, to a postgraduate student in the SPH for a research project in Epidemiology on grounds of excellence.

2006

GEMP III students/Group 2C

Awarded 3rd prize for their presentation in the Academic Research category at the Annual GPG Prakash Vallabh Research Conference which is an annual conference run by the Gauteng Health Department. The topic presented was “Determination of the average queuing time of patients attending outpatient pharmacies at the Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital”.

2006

Professor Mary Edginton

Received a “Service Excellence” award for the work done in establishing and managing the TB Care Centre and in promoting better management of TB at Baragwanath Hospital. The award was a framed certificate and a book.

2006

Dr Kathy Kahn

Best Oral Presentation under category Chronic Illness & Diseases of Lifestyle at Faculty Research Day. Awarded FRC Travel Grant valued at R25000.

Topic: “Mortality trends in a new South Africa (Agincourt 1992-2003): Hard to make a fresh start”.

2006

Dr Duane Blaauw

Best Oral Presentation under category Health Systems and Health Services at Faculty Research Day. Awarded FRC Travel Grant valued at R25000.

Topic: “Job characteristics affecting where maternal health nurses choose to work: a discreet choice experiment”.

2006

Dr Leegale Adonis

Roche Young Researchers award under category Health Systems and Health Services at Faculty Research Day. Awarded Roche Young Researcher award of R5000.

2005

Professor Sharon Fonn

Distinguished Scientist Award for contributing to the quality of life of women. Awarded by Department of Science and Technology.

2005

Professor Sharon Fonn

Guest speaker at 10th International Women and Health Meeting in New Delhi, India.

2005

Dr Jeff Yengopal

Awarded the Cochrane Child Health Field Bursary. He spent a month at the University of Manchester working on is Cochrane Systematic Review entitled “Dental fillings for the treatment of Early Childhood Caries”.

2005

Dr Simon Nemutandani

Won the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) postgraduate prize for the best paper on Community Dentistry at the 1st Inaugural meeting of Africa and Middle East in Kuwait.

2005

Mrs Colleen Cronk

Nominated for RW Charlton Award for Service Excellence.

2005

Ms Dudu Dlamini

Awarded INDEPTH Young Scientist Award, covering full-travel, accommodation and conference costs to the INDEPTH Scientific and Annual General Meeting in Durban

2005

Dr Kathy Kahn & Professor Stephen Tollman

Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) Guest Researcher Awards. Based at Epidemiology and Public health Sciences, Umea University, Sweden

2005

Professor Clifford Odimegwu

Elected Vice-President of the Population Association of Southern Africa (PASA)

2005

Professor Stephen Tollman

Re-elected Chair, INDEPTH Board of Trustees

2005

Professor Shan Naidoo

Elected President of the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA)

2005

Dr Leegale Adonis

Nominated Chair of the Public Health Medicine Registrars Association of South Africa

2005

Dr Roxy Jina

Elected an executive member of PHASA

2005

Dr Stephen Mickenautsch

3rd prize for most innovative business plan 2004, National Innovation Competition via University of the Witwatersrand Enterprise and Research Office

2004

Professor Mike Rudolph

Awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Academic Citizenship (Individual)

2004

Dr Ahmed Bhayat

Won the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) postgraduate prize. His paper was entitled “Patient’s perceptions of denture services in Public Oral Health facilities in Johannesburg”

2004

Dr Leena Thomas

Awarded a prize for the Best Oral Presentation at the 2004 Prakash Vallabh Research Conference which is an annual conference run by the Gauteng Health Department. The topic presented was “Levels of Occupational Stress in Doctors in a Public Sector Hospital”.

2004

Professor Mary Edginton

The TB Care Centre received 1st prize for the hospital section of the regional service excellence competition in Gauteng. They were given a trophy and certificate of R3000.

2004

Dr Datonye Okechukwu Douglas

Awarded the William Harding le Riche Medal, established in 1983, to a postgraduate student in the SPH for a research project in Epidemiology on grounds of excellence.

2004

Public Oral Health

Launch of new Mobile Unit. Unit was awarded 3rd prize in an Innovative Technology Competition at Wits

2004

Dr Roxy Jina

Obtained a fellowship to attend the Salzburg seminar entitled Multicultural Health. The seminar had an international audience with key note speakers from the World health Organisation, the World Bank and the School of Public health of the University of Sao Paulo.

2003

Mr Andrew Swanepoel

SAIOH Award – Occupational Hygiene Student of the Year.

2003

Dr Jane Goudge

Awarded Medical Research Council grant for Analysis of Kwa-Zulu Natal Income dynamics survey. Secondary data analysis to examine the extent to which social resources and vulnerability affects a households decision to seek care.

2003

Ms Busisiwe Nyantumbu

Awarded the William Harding le Riche Medal, established in 1983, to a postgraduate student in the SPH for a research project in Epidemiology on grounds of excellence.

2003

Dr Zuko Dwane

Won the prize for the best oral presentation at the Public Health Conference in Durban. The paper was entitled “The Prevalence of Silicosis and Tuberculosis in a Foundry”.

2002

Dr Leena Thomas

Awarded the William Harding le Riche Medal, established in 1983, to a postgraduate student in the SPH for a research project in Epidemiology on grounds of excellence.

2001

Dr Paul Pronyk

Commonwealth Scholarship for doctoral studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

2001

Dr Tolulola Taiwo

Awarded the William Harding le Riche Medal, established in 1983, to a postgraduate student in the SPH for a research project in Epidemiology on grounds of excellence.

2001

Mrs Estelle Strelec

Nominated for meritorious service excellence award for support staff.