UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

Prof Stephen M. Tollman

Prof Stephen Tollman

Job title:
Director: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
Associate Professor and Head: Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand

Email
: Stephen.Tollman@wits.ac.za



Education:
PhD (Epidemiology and Public Health), Umeå University, Sweden, 2008
MMed (Public Health Medicine), University of the Witwatersrand, 1999
MPH (Health Services Admin), Harvard University, USA, 1988
MBBCh, University of the Witwatersrand, 1984
MA, Oxford University, UK, 1995
BA (PPE), Oxford University, UK, 1982
BSc (Anatomy & Physiology), University of the Witwatersrand, 1979

Previous Posts:
Director, Agincourt Health and Population Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, 2000-2002
Leader, Agincourt Health and Population Research Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, 1998-1999
Senior Lecturer (special list since 1997), University of the Witwatersrand , 1994-1999
Director, Health Systems Development Unit (HSDU), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, 1990-1996
Senior Research Officer, Health Systems Development Unit (HSDU), University of the Witwatersrand, 1994-1996
Research Fellow, Population Sciences and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 1988-1990
Secretariat member, Commission on Health Research for Development, 1988-1990
Senior House Officer, Coronation Hospital (obstets and gynae, paeds), 1986
Intern, Coronation Hospital, Johannesburg (surgery and internal medicine), 1985

Honorary Positions:
Research Associate, Population Aging Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Guest Professor, Centre for Global Health, Umeå University, Sweden
Evaluator, 10 year evaluation of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research of the Global Forum for Health Research, Geneva
2010-current Panel member, The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in sub-Saharan Africa, Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, USA
2009-current Panel member, Public Health and Tropical Medicine Interview Committee (PHATIC), The Wellcome Trust, UK
2010-current Panel member, UK MRC Global Health Group
2004-current Panel member, Policy Research and Data Needs to Meet the Challenge of Aging in Africa, Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, USA