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The School of Public Health provides e.g. a MSc in epidemiology program as well as a Master in Public Health program. It also has research entities, including the the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System (HSDSS) site (part of the INDEPTH network) in rural South Africa. It focuses on providing reliable population-based health and demographic information (including registration of births, deaths and migrations).

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Recent project

Facilitating the Research Methods module of the MSc Epidemiology programme. This involved giving input in lectures on e.g. research methodology, and faciliating group sessions in which students could present for example their research question and objectives, and research methodology. At a later stage this involved examination of reseach proposals as well.

Reference: Steve Tollman | Director of the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit

The client

"As director of the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit, based in rural Mpumalanga, I can say that Dr Annette Gerritsen made a most valuable contribution to the just-published INDEPTH volume on Migration, Livelihoods and Health. In particular, she used her highly developed skills in epidemiology and biostatistics to review all the chapters for methodological quality."

Reference: Steve Tollman | Director of the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit

More projects

  • Writing a literature review on growth faltering and impaired development (prevalence, risk factors and interventions) in children under 2 in developing countries, as part of a study proposal for the Gates Foundation.

    Reference: Shane Norris | Wits University Johannesburg

  • Analysing data to validate verbal autopsies in the Agincourt Demographic and Health Surveillance system. Writing an article on this for a peer-reviewed journal. Oral presentation of the study at the PHASA 2010 conference.

    Reference: Kathleen Kahn | Wits University Johannesburg

  • Providing editorial support to a book from INDEPTH in order to to better understand Migration and Urbanization in African and Asian settings. This was done by e.g. reviewing all the chapters for methodological quality.

    Reference: Steve Tollman | Director of the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit

  • A half-day workshop on Introduction to Epidemiology for participants in the Forced Migration Studies Programme of Wits University. Measures of frequency and association, as well as different study designs were discussed, all including examples from studies conducted in the field of migration.

    Reference: Lorena Nunez | Wits University Johannesburg

  • Supervising MSc Demography students. Reviewing and examinating MSc, MPH and PhD dissertations. 

    Reference: Kathleen Kahn | Wits University Johannesburg

  • Assisted with the development of the study proposal for a second multi-site INDEPTH initiative to better understand Migration and Urbanization in African and Asian settings.

    Reference: Mark Collinson | Senior Researcher Agincourt

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