Till Bärnighausen, MD, ScD, MSc, MSc
Senior Epidemiologist

Current Research Interests:
HIV Epidemiology and Health Systems

Ruth Bland, BSc, MBChB, DCH, MRCPCH, MD
Clinical Research Lead

Current Research Interests:
Paediatric HIV treatment and care, mother-to-child transmission of HIV, childhood obesity

Natsayi Chimbindi MSc (Field Epidemiology), BSc (Health Education)
Epidemiologist

Current Research Interests:
HIV/AIDS Epidemiology and Health Systems Research

Siva Danaviah, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist: Africa Centre Virology Laboratory

Current Research Interests:
HIV evolution and diversity.
HIV and TB co-infection and viral compartmentalization

Kobus Herbst, MBChB, MSc (Med), FFCH(SA)
Deputy Director

Current Research Interests:
Health Information systems, Health Care Coding, Costing of Health Care Services & Health Care Financing, Improving Access to Research Data.

Graeme Hoddinott, BSocSc (psychology), Hons.(psychology), MSocSc (research psychology) 
Research Coordinator

Current Research Interests:
Conscientization as an intervention development and delivery mechanism. Meaning creation, sustenance and sourcing in dialogic contexts. Agents of change in the context of traditionalism

John Imrie, BA(Hon), MA, MSc, DipLSHTM, PhD
Assistant Director
Social Scientist

Current Research Interests:
HIV prevention and sexual health promotion: social understandings and HIV representation; intervention development and evaluation; innovation in qualitative and quantitative methods.

Current Research Interests:
HIV treatment and care; TB diagnostics and treatment (particularly drug-resistant TB).

Tshepiso Mafojane, MSc (Medicine)
Senior Scientist

Current Research Interests:
Mortality and burden of disease; with specific reference to Survival Analysis and GLMM techniques

Abraham Malaza, PhD
Epidemiologist

Current Research Interests:
Tracking/monitoring the epidemic in the community (prevalence & incidence rates) in relation to intervention on the ground or as to whcih intervention is needed and to whcih population groups these interventions should be targeted at.

Nuala McGrath, ScD, MSc
Epidemiologist

Current Research Interests:

Current Research Interests:
Primary HIV infection in Antenatal Women

William Muhwava, PhD (Medical Demographer)
Senior Demographer

Current Research Interests:
Fertility Transitions, Migration, Impact of HIV/AIDS on Demographic factors

Portia Mutevedzi, BSc(Hons) Biological Science, MSc Epidemiology & Biostats
Epidemiologist

Current Research Interests:
Direct and indirect impact of HIV of the elderly aged 50 years and above, with specific focus on morbidity.  Short term and long term clinical, immunological and virological outcomes of adult individuals aged 16 years and above accessing ART. 

Tinofa Mutevedzi, MSc (Population Studies), BSc (Hons) Social Work, Dip Social Work
Head of Research Operations

Current Research Interests:
Adolescent reproductive health focusing on contextual determinants

Current Research Interests:
HIV infection in pregnancy and the subsequent consequences for their infants. The impact of HIV prevention, treatment and care programmes on child mortality.

Colin Newell, MA(Hons) Geography, MSc (Econ) Demography
Senior Database Scientist

Current Research Interests:
Primarily responsible for the documentation and delivery of data for scientific analysis from all AC databases. Also develops and maintains several MS-Access databases, particularly for ART rollout. Also, within the AC Demographic Surveillance System has responsibility for the data quality and improvement thereof.

Marie-Louise Newell, MB, MSc (Med Demography), PhD (Epidemiology)
Epidemiologist
Director

Current Research Interests:

Makandwe Nyirenda, MPhil (Demography), BA
Demographer

Current Research Interests:
Current research interests are around the theme of population ageing in Africa. As part of this research agenda, will be undertaking a study on the health, mortality and living arrangements among older people (aged 50 years and over) in South Africa in the context of high HIV prevalence and wide availability of HIV treatment. Other research interests include demographic estimation using poor or defective data; modeling of demographic processes especially at sub-national levels; socio-economic impacts of orphanhood; sexual behavior and HIV/AIDS among adolescents or young adults.

Tamsen Rochat, BA, BA Hons Cum Laude, MSocSc Clinical Psychology
Senior Research Psychologist

Current Research Interest:
Antenatal and postnatal depression in the context of HIV; Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV; Infant and child development in the context of adversity; Developmental psychopathology; Adult psychopathology; Community and family based prevention programs; Psychology and public health; Childhood vulnerability and resilience

Frank Tanser, BSc (Hons), MSc (Geog), PhD, MSc (Epidemiology)
Spatial Epidemiologist

Current Research Interests:
Use of multi-level statistical models to understand causal pathways of HIV infection.  Integration of spatial and genetic epidemiological approaches to inform targeted HIV intervention strategies.

Johannes Viljoen, MBChB, FC Path(SA)Viro
Medical Virologist
Head of the Africa Centre Virology Laboratory

Current Research Interests:
HIV-1 quantification and genotyping in breast milk and dried blood spots. 
Coviral infections in breast milk.