Dr Dlamini holds a doctorate (PhD) in Public Health and has worked on a number of projects, as a Researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Discipline of Public Health Medicine). He is highly experienced in the area of behaviour change, including the development of HIV/AIDS and STI interventions focusing on prevention, and gender-based violence prevention. He has also been involved in programme evaluation studies in the province. He has also led research field teams and coordinated research studies. He is also a lecturer in the discipline at the postgraduate level and has graduated students in the Master of Public Health programme. He is also co-supervising and supervising students at a doctoral level. Dr Dlamini has authored and co-authored articles in peer-reviewed journals. He also coordinated one of the highly sought-after Research Capacity Initiative (SANPAD RCI) programmes in the country, funded by the Dutch Foreign Ministry for a number of years until its closure in 2013. He was also part of the team that was working on the Hospital Management Mentorship Programme (a Partnership between the National Department of Health, Italian Corporation, Wits University, and UKZN). Dr Dlamini’s interests are in intervention development, cancer epidemiology, research supervision, and teaching and learning in the field of public health. He is one of the Co-Principal Investigators on multiple projects, including the Multinational Lung Cancer Control Programme (MLCCP) in KwaZulu-Natal (South African arm) and Cervical Cancer Prevention, Access and Control (CCPAC) Programme in Zululand District, KwaZulu-Natal. These projects received multimillion-rand funding from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation.
