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Terusha Chetty
Deputy Director
Contact Info
Tel: +27 31 203 4733
Email: Terusha.Chetty@mrc.ac.za
Education
MBChB, DCH(SA), FCPHM(SA), MMed, MS, PHD

Terusha Chetty is a specialist Public Health Medicine clinician and epidemiologist. Her research interests include maternal and child health with a specific focus on HIV and pregnancy and health systems strengthening over the last 10 years. She is the co-PI on the Mphatlalatsane Evaluation, a mixed methods implementation science type 2 hybrid study to determine the effect of a health systems intervention on maternal and perinatal mortality and factors that affect the uptake of the intervention during COVID-19.  She is also the PI on SisonkeMums, a study aimed to determine the safety, immunogenicity, durability, and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine amongst pregnant and breastfeeding women vaccinated as part of the Sisonke study.