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Dr Catherine O. Egbe
Senior Specialist Scientist
Contact Info
Tel: +27 12 339 8504
Email: Catherine.egbe@mrc.ac.za
1 Soutpansberg Road, Pretoria
Private Bag x385, Pretoria, South Africa
Education
PhD Psychology & Health Promotion

Dr Catherine Egbe is a Senior Specialist Scientist in the Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council.

She obtained a PhD in Psychology and Health Promotion from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban South Africa. From 2013 to 2015 Dr Egbe worked on the Programme for Improving Mental Health (PRIME) and Emerging Mental Health Systems for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (EMERALD) projects as a postdoctoral Research Fellow of UKZN. She spent 3 months of this period as a Visiting Researcher to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London.

From 2015 to October 2017, Dr. Egbe was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the University of California San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, a WHO collaborating center for tobacco control. Her research at this Center focused on tobacco control in Africa.

Dr Egbe is a member of the Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research and was a Fall 2016 Global Health Network Spotlight Winner. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Qualitative Health and Well-being and Regional Editor for Africa of Tobacco Control Journal. She is currently the principal investigator of South Africa’s first Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2021 and Tobacco Endgame in Africa study.