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Alistair van Heerden
Email: avanheerden@hsrc.ac.za
Qualification: MSc
Thesis title: Pervasive computing and public health research in Africa: mobile phones in the collection, analysis and dissemination of health research
Supervisors: Prof. Stephen Tollman (University of the Witwatersrand); Prof. Shane Norris (University of the Witwatersrand)
Research interests: My research interests centre on the use of mobile phones and other emerging technologies in health research. I am currently evaluating mobile phones as data collection devices. |
Noriah Matabane
Email: matabanenoriah@yahoo.com
Qualification: MPH
Thesis title: Socio-demographic factors associated with child morbidity in children under 5 in the Agincourt DSS in 2006.
Supervisors: Prof Kathleen Kahn (University of the Witwatersrand); Ms Elizabeth Kimane-Murage (University of the Witwatersrand)
Research interests: Behavioural changes and diseases related to malnutrition in children; nutritional epidemiology; chronic disease epidemiology. |
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Richard Afedi Nagai
Email: richardafedi@yahoo.co.uk / richardafedi@gmail.com
Qualification : MSc (Med) (Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
Thesis title: Predictors and factors associated with maternal death in Agincourt, a rural sub-district of Mpumalanga Province
Supervisors: Prof Kathleen Kahn (University of the Witwatersrand); Mr. Benn Sartorius (University of the Witwatersrand)
Research interests: Healthcare financing, equity and efficiency in healthcare research, social science perspectives of malaria, survey and qualitative research, health policies affecting adolescent/maternal health |
Goodness Mildred Shabangu
Email address: Mildred@agincourt.co.za / Goodness.Shabangu@wits.ac.za
Qualification: MA Demography
Thesis title: The Odds of Progressing from First to Second Birth in the Context of Fertility Decline in Rural South Africa
Supervisors: Prof. Clifford Odimegwu (University of the Witwatersrand); Dr. Jill Williams (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Research interests: Population and Development, Gender, Fertility trends and transitions |
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Ryan G. Wagner
Email address: ryan@agincourt.co.za
Qualification: MSc (Med) by research
Thesis title: Mavabyi ya ku wa: The Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Epilepsy in a Rural South African Surveillance Site
Supervisors: Mrs. Rhian Twine (University of the Witwatersrand); Dr. Myles Connor (University of Edinburgh/ University of the Witwatersrand)
Research interests: Neurology, Public Health, Epidemiology |
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Samuel Kojo Antobam
Email: kojobbm@yahoo.co.uk
Qualification: PhD
Thesis title: Sex differentials and child mortality: does lineage system matter?
Supervisors: Prof. Clifford Odimegwu (University of the Witwatersrand)
Research interests: Migration, household economics, inter-household and intergenerational transfers, labour economics, mortality. |
F Xavier Gómez-Olivé
Email: Xavier@agincourt.co.za
Qualification: PhD
Thesis title: Factors associated with health and well-being of older people in a rural African setting.
Supervisors: Prof. Stephen Tollman (University of the Witwatersrand); Prof. Margaret Thorogood (University of Warwick, UK)
Research interests: Ageing, monitoring and control of non-communicable diseases, ART rollout monitoring and evaluation. |
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Tintswalo Mercy Hlungwani
Email: tintswalo.hlungwani@wits.ac.za / mercyhlungeani@yahoo.com
Qualification: PhD
Thesis title: Prevalence and predictors of psychosocial wellbeing amongst primary-school children in a high HIV prevalence and socioeconomically deprived rural setting in South Africa. The role of ecological factors.
Supervisors: Prof. Merryl Vorster (University of the Witwatersrand); Dr Lucie Cluver (University of Oxford, UK)
Research interests: Mental health, social network analysis, school-based interventions and participatory action research.
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Phillipa Kanyoka
Email: phillipakanyoka@yahoo.co.uk
Qualification: PhD
Thesis title: Rural livelihoods, ecosystem services and human well?being. SUCSES: Sustainability in Communal Socio?Ecological Systems
Supervisors: Dr. Wayne Twine (University of the Witwatersrand)
Research interests: Natural resource and environmental economics, Integrated ecological-economic systems modeling, Ecosystems and human well-being, water and livelihoods; Poverty and the environment; HIV/ AIDS and rural development
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Elizabeth Kimani-Murage
Email: lizmurage@gmail.com
Qualification: PhD
Thesis title: Maternal and child health in the context of high HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa.
Supervisors: Prof Kathleen Kahn (University of the Witwatersrand); Prof Shane Norris (University of the Witwatersrand)
Research interests: Malnutrition (both under-nutrition and obesity)
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Charles Lebon Mberi Kimpolo
Email address: ckimpolo@cam.wits.ac.za
Qualification: PhD
Thesis title: Deterministic Dynamics in Questionnaires in the Social Sciences
Supervisors: Prof. David Sherwell (University of the Witwatersrand)
Research interests: Application of Dynamical Systems in the Social Sciences
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Eustasius Musenge
Email: Eustasius.Musenge@wits.ac.za
Qualification: PhD
Thesis title: Spatial and spatiotemporal patterns of HIV/TB
related mortality in Agincourt.
Supervisors: Prof. Kathleen Kahn (University of the Witwatersrand); Dr Penelope Vounatsou (Swiss Tropical Institute)
Research interests: Spatio-temporal epidemiology, Bayesian modeling, large data analysis, HIV/TB mortality.
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Benn Sartorius
Email address: bennsartorius@hotmail.com
Qualification: PhD
Thesis title: Spatial-temporal modeling of all-cause and cause-specific mortality in rural South Africa
Supervisors: Prof. Kathleen Kahn (University of the Witwatersrand); Dr Penelope Vounatsou (Swiss Tropical Institute)
Research interests: Bayesian geostatistical survival modelling
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