UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

Research Day 2009

Dr Molefi Sefularo, the current Deputy Minister of Health, will be delivering the opening address at the School of Public Health Biennial Research Day to be held on 14 May at the Bozolli Pavillion, East Campus. The day will showcase the research undertaken by the School and will tackle some of the most pressing issues facing health care in Southern Africa. All are welcome. Join us for a day of challenging discussion and intellectual engagement.

07h30 - 08h30

Registration & Tea
Poster viewing Click here for list of posters and abstracts

08h30 - 08h45

Welcome
Professor Sharon Fonn
Head of Department, School of Public Health

08h45 - 09h30

Opening
Introduction by: Professor Belinda Bozzoli
Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research

Address by: Dr Molefi Sefularo
National Department of Health

SESSION 1

 

09h30 - 11h00

HEALTH SYSTEMS
Chairperson: Dr Jane Goudge

Policy interventions to improve health worker retention in rural areas: the creation of the CREHS cohort and preliminary findings from its baseline
Erasmus E, Bl uw D, Lagarde M O- 01

Policy interventions to address the shortage of nurses in rural areas: a stated preference study
Bl uw D, Erasmus E, Lagarde M O- 02

Helpseeking Behaviour of People Attending An HIV/ART Clinic In Rural South Africa
Moshabela M, Pronyk P, Williams N, Schneider H, Lurie M O- 03

The REACH project: preliminary descriptive findings from phase 1.
Harris B, The REACH team O- 04

Assessing the nature and impact of participation of the South African National AIDS Council?s (SANAC) actors in the multi-sectoral approach to HIV and AIDS policy implementation.
Veerapan S O- 05
 

An Evaluation of Laboratory Services Utilization and Practices at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (CHBH)
Timothy GA, Basu D, Billa R O- 06

11h00 - 11h30

Tea

SESSION 2

11h30 - 12h30

COMMUNICABLE & NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Chairperson: Dr Cheryl Cohen

Potential Predictors of death in children with Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in South Africa, 2003-2005.
Nyasulu P, Cohen C, von Gottberg A, de Gouveia L, Feldman C, Klugman KP O- 07

Evaluation of a chronic disease outreach program (CDOP) in Soweto
Katz I, Shezi E, Mdleleni G, Butler O, Bl uw D, Naicker S, Schneider H, Manderson L
O- 08

Tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes in adult TB patients attending a rural HIV clinic in South Africa (Bushbuckridge).
Mashimbye L, Moshabela M, Pronyk P, Strunthers H, Martinson N O- 09

Health, Quality of Life and levels of disability in older people in rural South Africa
G?-Oliv?, Thorogood M, Clark B,Tollman S O- 10

12h30 - 13h00

Key-note Address:
Alma-Ata, 30 years after: The Tanzania Experience
Ms. Rose Nathan
Ifakara Demographic Surveillance System

13h00 - 13h45

Lunch & Poster viewing

SESSION 3

 

13h45 - 15h00

HEALTH STATUS AND NUTRITION
Chairperson: Prof. Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

Impact of urbanization and migration on child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
Bocquier P, Madise NJ, Zulu E.M O- 11

Food security in impoverished urban settlements in South Africa
Naicker N, Mathee A, Conco D O- 12

Changes In Household States And Its Impact In Agincourt, The Orbit Theory.
Mberi Kimpolo CL O- 13 

Spatial-temporal trends and risk factors for infant and child mortality in rural South Africa: Evidence from the Agincourt health and socio-demographic surveillance system, 1992-2007
Sartorius B , Kahn K, Vounatsou P O- 14

Age and sex patterns of under- and overnutrition in children and adolescents in contemporary rural South Africa
Kimani-Murage E, Kahn K, Pettifor J, Tollman S, Dunger D, G?-Oliv?, Norris S.
O- 15

SESSION 4

 

15h00 - 16h00

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Chairperson: Dr. Spo Kgalamono

Occupational injury and disease surveillance in the National Health Laboratory Service in South Africa
Kielkowski D, Ross MH, Ferrie R, Rees D O- 16

Fatalities among construction workers in South Africa: 2004 ? 2006
Vekinis D, Kielkowski D, Rees D, Wilson K, Bello B O- 17

Measurement of burnout and associated factors in the surgical staff at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
Rajaram S, Schneider H, Basu D O- 18

Exposure to respirable crystalline silica in South African farm workers
Swanepoel A, Rees D, Renton K, Kromhout H O- 19

16h00 - 16h15

Tea

SESSION 5

16h15 - 17h15

TEACHING & RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Chairperson: Dr. Mary Kawonga

Evaluating the impact of service learning amongst Wits dental students.
Bhayat A, Yengopal V, Rudolph MJ O- 20

Salt Fluoridation: a meta-analysis of its efficacy for caries prevention.
Yengopal V, Chikte UME, Mickenautsch S, Bhayat A O- 21

Developing a Community Advisory Group in a new vaccine trial site in rural South Africa
Twine R, Tibane J, Khosa A, Xavier G?-Oliv?, Tollman S, Kahn K, Collinson M, Vardas E O- 22

Feasibility and acceptability of biometric identification via fingerprints for population-based research in Agincourt.
Kabudula C, Reniers G, Clark B, Gomez-Olive X O- 23

17h15 - 17h20

Closing & Thanks
Professor Sharon Fonn

17h20 - 17h30

Presentation of Awards

Professor Helen Laburn
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences

17h30

Refreshments