Alumni

  • Zenabu Suboi

    MSc

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Dr M Hazelbag

    Graduation Date: December 2020

    Thesis: Calibrating models to data: A comparison of methods

  • Geoffrey Fatti

    PhD

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Prof U Chikte, Prof J Nachega

    Graduation Date: December 2020

    Thesis: An evaluation of the effectiveness of task-shifting health systems approaches, including community-based and pharmaceutical care models, for HIV treatment and prevention programs in South Africa

  • Elisha Are

    PhD

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Prof J Hargrove

    Graduation Date: December 2020

    Thesis: Extinction probabilities for tsetse (Glossina spp.) in a world of changing climate

  • Wynand van Staden

    MSc

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Dr M Hazelbag

    Graduation Date: April 2020

    Thesis: A within-host mathematical model of drug-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

  • David James Phair

    PhD

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Prof T Wossler, Prof C Hui

    Graduation Date: March 2020

    Thesis: Social organisation and pathogen transmission in African ants: at what point do social immunity benefits diminish?

  • Winnie Chabaari

    MSc

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Dr R Ouifki, Dr A Eladaddi

    Graduation Date: December 2019

    Thesis: The use of oncolytic viruses as a novel cancer treatment method

  • Fortunate Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma

    PhD

    Institution: University of KwaZulu-Natal

    Supervisor: Prof H Mwambi, Prof S Vansteelandt

    Graduation Date: December 2019

    Thesis: Estimating the effect of treatment in randomized controlled trials with non-compliance: application of instrumental variables

  • Rita Sianga

    MSc

    Institution: University of Cape Town

    Supervisor: Prof D Martin

    Graduation Date: December 2019

    Thesis: Analysis of the non-reversibility of HIV and its impact on the phylogenetic analysis of HIV

  • Mandilakhe Mdekazi

    Hons

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Dr J Sempa

    Graduation Date: December 2019

    Thesis: Estimating performance characteristics of sedia limiting antigen avidity assay for HIV incidence surveillance

  • Dylan Geldenhuys

    Hons

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Dr M Hazelbag

    Graduation Date: December 2019

    Thesis: Automatic landmark detection on tsetse fly wing images

  • Carla Louw

    PhD

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Prof J Snoep

    Graduation Date: December 2019

    Thesis: Hypocortisolism in angora goats - insight through computational modelling

  • Priyanka Kooverjee

    Hons

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Dr L Bolton

    Graduation Date: December 2019

    Thesis: Re-defining the retardation constant within the Gompertz growth model to improve characterisation of Rhabdomyosarcoma progression.

  • Abdul-Karim Iddrisu

    PhD

    Institution: University of Cape Town

    Supervisor: Dr F Gumedze

    Graduation Date: December 2019

    Thesis: Sensitivity analysis approaches for incomplete longitudinal data in a multi-centre clinical trial

  • Tamsin Kate Phillips

    PhD

    Institution: University of Cape Town

    Supervisor: Prof L Myer, Prof C Orrell

    Graduation Date: July 2019

    Thesis: Understanding maternal adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected women through pregnancy, breastfeeding and into ongoing ART care

  • Emanuel M Dominic

    MSc

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Prof W Delva

    Graduation Date: December 2018

    Thesis: Associations between age differences in relationships and relationship characteristics that affect HIV transmission risk

  • David Louw

    Hons

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Ms C van Schalkwyk

    Graduation Date: December 2018

    Thesis: The effects of varying infant vaccination coverage levels on the potential of a measles outbreak in England

  • Makabongwe Nombula

    Hons

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Dr M Hazelbag

    Graduation Date: December 2018

    Thesis: Waning immunity marring the eradication of mumps-a modelling study

  • Handre Janse Van Vuuren

    Hons

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Prof C Hui

    Graduation Date: December 2018

    Thesis: Project on metapopulation dynamics

  • Coceka Mnyani

    PhD

    Institution: University of the Witwatersrand

    Supervisor: Prof E Buchmann, Prof M Chersich

    Graduation Date: July 2018

    Thesis: Assessing progress and barriers to elimination of mother-to-child transmission and decreasing HIV-related maternal deaths in the Johannesburg health district

  • Martin Canaan Mafunda

    MSc

    Institution: University of Venda

    Supervisor: Dr W Garira

    Graduation Date: June 2018

    Thesis: Multiscale modelling of HIV/AIDS transmission dynamics

  • Mbuso Ishmael Mntambo

    PhD

    Institution: University of the Western Cape

    Supervisor: Prof T Puoane

    Graduation Date: April 2018

    Thesis: Developing the public health model of community participation in the Kwazulu-Natal primary health care system

  • Frieda Geldenhuys

    MSc

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Prof C Hui

    Graduation Date: March 2018

    Thesis: Using species distribution models for spatial conservation planning of African penguins

  • James Azam

    MSc

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Prof J Pulliam

    Graduation Date: March 2018

    Thesis: Assessment of a measles outbreak response vaccination campaign, and two measles parameter estimation methods

  • Zinhle E Mthombothi

    MSc

    Institution: Stellenbosch University

    Supervisor: Prof J Hargrove, Dr R Ouifki

    Graduation Date: March 2018

    Thesis: Studying the effects of temperature change on the dynamics of tsetse flies and trypanosomiasis disease transmission