​​​​​​​​​Department of Global Health

Publication highlights

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• Konkin J, Grave L, Cockburn E, Couper I, et al. Exploration of rural physicians’ lived experience of practising outside their usual scope of practice to provide access to essential medical care (clinical courage): an international phenomenological study BMJ Open 2020;10:e037705. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037705
• Allwood BW, Koegelenberg CFN, Irusen E, et al. Clinical evolution, management and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 admitted at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa: a research protocol. BMJ Open 2020;10:e039455. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-039455​
• Boulle et al. Risk factors for COVID-19 death in a population cohort study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa1198​, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1198
• ​​Tricco AC, Garritty CM, Boulos L, Lockwood C, Wilson M, McGowan J, McCaul M, Hutton B, Clement F, Mittmann N, Devane D, Langlois EV, Abou-Setta AM, Houghton C, Glenton C, Kelly SE, Welch VA, LeBlanc A, Wells GA, Pham B’, Lewin S, Straus SE, Rapid review methods more challenging during COVID-19: Commentary with a focus on 8 knowledge synthesis steps, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (2020)​, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.06.029.
  
• ​Nachega et al. From Easing Lockdowns to Scaling Up Community-based Coronavirus Disease 2019 Screening, Testing, and Contact Tracing in Africa—Shared Approaches, Innovations, and Challenges to Minimize Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 
  
• Zhen J, et al. Transmission of respiratory viruses when using public ground transport: A rapid review to inform public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. South African Medical Journal 2020;110(6)​
• Dramowski et al. South African healthcare workers and COVID-19: A shared responsibility to protect a precious and limited resource. South African Medical Journal, [S.l.], jun. 2020. ISSN 2078-5135.  
  Date accessed: 02 Jul. 2020. doi:10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i7.14903.​
• Achieving high-quality and accountable universal health
• The Health Market Inquiry and its potential contribution to improving health systems functioning in South Africa
• A university’s response to people with disabilities in Worcester, Western Cape
• Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017
• Global research priorities to accelerate programming to improve early childhood development in the sustainable development era: a CHNRI exercise​
• Rural-urban disparities in missed opportunities for vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country decomposition analyses
• Surgery as a component of universal healthcare: Where is South Africa?
• Exploring the evolution of engagement between academic public health researchers and decision-makers: from initiation to dissolution
• Characterizing the double-sided cascade of care for adolescents living with HIV transitioning to adulthood across Southern Africa​
  
• Outcomes of Three- Versus Six-Monthly Dispensing of Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) for Stable HIV Patients in Community ART Refill Groups: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Zimbabwe​
  
• Decisive and strong leadership and intersectoral action from South Africa in response to the COVID-19 virus​
• Developing trustworthy recommendations as part of an urgent response (1-2 weeks): a GRADE concept paper GRADE Rapid Guide​lines project group​

• Opinions of supervisors of clinical associates in South African district ho​​spitals

• ​Core competencies required by toxicology graduates in order to function effectively in a Poisons Information Centre: A Delphi study
  

• Support Nurses and Midwives to Strengthen Health Care Systems​
  

• A framework for distributed health professions training: using participatory action research to build consensus​
  

• Kauta JN, Groenwald J, Arnolds D, Blankson B, Omar A, Naidu P, Naidoo M, and Chu KM. A WhatsApp Mobile Health Platform to Support Fracture Management by Non-Specialists in South Africa. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2020 Jan;230(1):37-42. doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.09.008. Read More​
  

• Chu KM, Dell AJ, Moultrie H, Day C, Naidoo M, van Straten S, Rayne S. A geospatial analysis of two-hour surgical access to district hospitals in South Africa. BMC Health Services Research.2020 Dec:20(1):1-5.​​ Read More​