Dr Tlou obtained his MSc in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of Fort Hare in 2012 and a PhD in Public Health Medicine from the University of KwaZulu Natal in 2017.Specialist in 2003 and an Associate in the Division of Occupational Medicine in the College of Public Health Medicine in 2010. His academic career spans 10 years, as a lecturer in the Discipline of Public Health Medicine and a biostatistician in the College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and now as the acting Head of the Biostatistics Unit in the School of Nursing and Public Health in the College of Health Sciences.
He is a Y2 rated researcher in terms of the National Research Foundation’s rating standard. His research interests focus on “Child and Maternal Health” and “Statistical Modelling on Spatial Clustering and Survival Analysis”. Amongst the multiple studies in which she is involved, she currently leads a cohort project studying the impact of prenatal pesticide exposure on maternal reproductive health and infant neurodevelopment in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. His publications highlight the health of women and children in rural South African settings.
He actively participates in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. He has supervised multiple masters and doctoral students and has been an active member of the College of Public Health Medicine in the College oof Health Sciences since 2012.
