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Rural Public Health and Health Transition

Current Projects

  • Understanding HIV risk and access to HIV care among young men in rural South Africa.
  • The relationship between chronic stressors, hypertension, resilience and cardiovascular disease in adolescents in rural South Africa.
  • MHFUS- Migration & Health follow-up study.
  • Social determinants-multilevel mechanisms of HIV acquisition in young South African women.
  • Activating treatment as prevention through community mobilization in South Africa (Tsima): Clinic quality assessment study.
  • Activating treatment as prevention through community mobilization in South Africa (Tsima): Endline survey.
  • Timing, quality and physiology of sleep in a deprived community cohort in SA and their relationship to chronic disease.
  • Health & Ageing in Africa: a longitudinal study of an INDEPTH Community in SA (HAALSI).
  • The Swa Koteka (‘it is possible’) multi-level HIV-prevention trial.
  • Nkateko cluster randomised trial on hypertension management in the context of integrated chronic care.
  • Ntshembo (‘hope’) study on limiting BMI variance in adolescent girls with the MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU).