BIOSKETCH Jabulani Ncayiyana is an epidemiologist and Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Public Health Medicine, at the School of Nursing and Public Health. He holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in the USA. He has specific training and expertise in infectious disease epidemiology and implementation science, as well as advanced training in biostatistics (including causal inference methods) and spatial epidemiology. He convenes MPH intermediate epidemiology module and teaches in other modules. He is a member of the first cohort of the Future Professors Programme (FPP) (2020-21), an initiative of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). He is also an editorial member of the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE), BMC Infectious Diseases, and PLOS ONE ORCID: 0000-0002-2151-1251, Scopus ID: 56901396300
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Infectious disease epidemiology (especially TB and HIV),
adolescent and child health,
cancer epidemiology,
spatial epidemiology and
implementation science.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Shinde, S., Harling, G., Assefa, N., Bärnighausen, T., Bukenya, J., Chukwu, A., Darling, A.M., Manu, A., Millogo, O., Mwanyika-Sando, M. and Ncayiyana, J., 2023. Counting adolescents in: the development of an adolescent health indicator framework for population-based settings. eClinicalMedicine, 61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102067
Ugwu CLJ & Ncayiyana JR., 2022. Spatial disparities of HIV prevalence in South Africa. Do sociodemographic, behavioral, and biological factors explain this spatial variability? Front. Public Health 10:994277. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.994277
Nyasulu, P.S., Ngasama, E., Tamuzi, J.L., Sigwadhi, L.N., Ozougwu, L.U., Nhandara, R.B., Ayele, B.T., Umanah, T. and Ncayiyana, J., 2022. Effect of HIV status and antiretroviral treatment on treatment outcomes of tuberculosis patients in a rural primary healthcare clinic in South Africa. PloS one, 17(10), p.e0274549.
Bell, G. J., Ncayiyana, J., Sholomon, A., Goel, V., Zuma, K., & Emch, M. (2022). Race, place, and HIV: The legacies of apartheid and racist policy in South Africa. Social Science & Medicine, 114755.
Dhokotera, T., Asangbeh, S., Bohlius, J., Singh, E., Egger, M., Rohner, E., Ncayiyana, J., Clifford, G.M., Olago, V. and Sengayi-Muchengeti, M., 2022. Cervical cancer in women living in South Africa: a record linkage study of the National Health Laboratory Service and the National Cancer Registry. Ecancer 16 1348 https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2022.1348
Dhokotera, T., Bohlius, J., Egger, M., Spoerri, A., Ncayiyana, J.R., Naidu, G., Olago, V., Zwahlen, M., Singh, E. and Muchengeti, M., 2021. Cancer in HIV-positive and HIV-negative adolescents and young adults in South Africa: a cross-sectional study. BMJ open, 11(10), p.e043941. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043941
Ncayiyana, J.R.; Martinez, L.; Goddard, E.; Myer, L.; Zar, H.J. (2021) Prevalence and Correlates of Vitamin D Deficiency among Young South African Infants: A Birth Cohort Study. Nutrients, 13, 1500. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13051500
Ramaswamy, R., Chirwa, T., Salisbury, K., Ncayiyana, J., Ibisomi, L., Rispel, L., Pettifor, A. (2020). Developing a Field of Study in Implementation Science for the Africa Region: The Wits–UNC AIDS Implementation Science Fogarty D43. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 6(1), 46-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/2373379919897088
Tafadzwa Gladys Dhokotera; Julia Bohlius; Adrian Spoerri; Matthias Egger; Jabulani Ncayiyana; Victor Olago; Elvira Singh; Mazvita Sengayi. The Burden of Cancer Attributable to HIV in the South African Public Health Sector, 2004-2014: a record linkage study. Infectious Agents and Cancer (2019). 14(12)
JR. Ncayiyana, J. Bassett, N. West, E. Musenge, M. Emch, D. Westreich, A. Pettifor, CF. Hanrahan, SR. Schwartz, I. Sanne, A. van Rie. Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection and predictive factors in an urban informal settlement in Johannesburg, South Africa: a cross-sectional study. BMC Infectious Diseases (2016) 16: 660
