Area of research
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health · Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Research interest
Research interests include Global Maternal and Child Health, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Health disparities and outcomes, and Child Nutrition and Water Access.
Count Every Newborn: EN-INDEPTH study to improve pregnancy outcome measurement in population-based surveys
Understanding non-communicable diseases: combining health surveillance with local knowledge to improve rural primary health care in South Africa.
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises
Global burden of respiratory infections associated with seasonal influenza in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study
Randomised comparison of two household survey modules for measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in five countries: the Every Newborn-INDEPTH study
Eco-epidemiological assessment of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, January-February 2020.
Time-critical conditions: assessment of burden and access to care using verbal autopsy in Agincourt, South Africa.
Building cooperative learning to address alcohol and other drug abuse in Mpumalanga, South Africa: a participatory action research process.
Eco-epidemiological assessment of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, January-February 2020
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
Global patterns in monthly activity of influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus: a systematic analysis
“Every Newborn-INDEPTH” (EN-INDEPTH) study protocol for a randomised comparison of household survey modules for measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in five Health and Demographic Surveillance sites
External injuries, trauma and avoidable deaths in Agincourt, South Africa: a retrospective observational and qualitative study
A comparison of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by household socioeconomic status across seven INDEPTH network health and demographic surveillance systems in sub-Saharan Africa
A comparison of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by household socioeconomic status across seven INDEPTH network health and demographic surveillance systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems: adding Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs) to deaths investigated by verbal autopsy.
Pregnancy, programming, and predisposition
Nurturing Global Health Action through its first decade.
The effects of maternal and child HIV infection on health equity in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, and the implications for the health system: a case-control study.
The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come
The WHO 2016 verbal autopsy instrument: An international standard suitable for automated analysis by InterVA, InSilicoVA, and Tariff 2.0
Novel tools for the surveillance and control of dengue: findings by the DengueTools research consortium
Developmental origins of health and disease in Africa—influencing early life
The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health
Research capacity building—obligations for global health partners
Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS): system-level considerations
Mitigating Diseases Transmitted by Aedes Mosquitoes: A Cluster-Randomised Trial of Permethrin-Impregnated School Uniforms
Understanding and acting on the developmental origins of health and disease in Africa would improve health across generations
The long road to elimination: malaria mortality in a South African population cohort over 21 years
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change