Reshma Kassanjee, PhD

Research Associate

Kassanjee is a senior research officer at the UCT Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) and a member of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS – Southern Africa consortium.
Her research to date has centred on methods for estimating the rate of new HIV infections, and she is currently focusing on using observational data from HIV cohorts to inform global policy and decision-making. As part of her work, Kassanjee also models the dynamics of disease transmission to better understand epidemics and design interventions.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1200-8726

Recent publications

HIV incidence estimation among female sex workers in South Africa: a multiple methods analysis of cross-sectional survey data
Kassanjee R, Welte A, Otwombe KN, Jaffer M, Milovanic M, Hlongwane KE, Puren A, Hill N, Mbowane V, Dunkle K, Gray G, Abdullah F, Jewkes R, Coetzee J

The Lancet HIV

(2022)

https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(22)00201-6
Community-led cross-sectional study of social and employment circumstances, HIV and associated factors amongst female sex workers in South Africa: study protocol
Milovanovic M, Jewkes R, Otwombe KN, Jaffera M, Hopkins K, Hlongwe KE, Mathaludi M, Mbowane V, Graya H, Dunkle K, Huntg G, Welte A, Kassanjee R, Slingersj N, Vanleeuwj L, Pureng A, Kinghorna A, Martinsona N, Abdullahj F, Coetzee J

Global Health Action

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1953243
Interpreting HIV diagnostic histories into infection time estimates: analytical framework and online tool
Grebe PE, Facente SN, Bingham JL, Pilcher CD, Powrie A, Gerber J, Priede G, Chibawara T, Busch MP, Murphy G, Kassanjee R, Welte A

BMC Infectious Diseases

(2019)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4543-9
A generalizable method for estimating duration of HIV infections using clinical testing history and HIV test results
Pilcher C, Porco TC, Facente SN, Grebe PE, Delaney KP, Silvina M, Kassanjee R, Busch MP, Murphy G, Owen SM, Welte A

AIDS

(2019)

https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002190
Moving towards a reliable HIV incidence test-current status, resources available, future directions and challenges ahead
Murphy G, Pilcher CD, Keating SM, Kassanjee R, Facente SN, Welte A, Grebe PE, Marson K, Busch MP, Dailey P, Parkin N, Osborn J, Ongarello S, Marsh K, Garcia Calleja JM

Epidemiology and Infection

(2017)

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268816002910
Cross-sectional HIV incidence surveillance: a benchmarking of approaches for estimating the ‘mean duration of recent infection’
Kassanjee R, De Angelis D, Farah M, Hanson DL, Labuschagne JPL, Laeyendecker O, Le Vu S, Tom B, Wang R, Welte A

Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases

(2017)

https://doi.org/10.1515/scid-2016-0002
Recalibration of the limiting antigen avidity eia to determine mean duration of recent infection in divergent HIV-1 subtypes
Choopanya K, Duong YT, Vanichseni S, Morgan M, Jiang Y, De A, Qiu M, Dobbs T, Yu H, Rottinghaus E, Hao Y, Nkengasong J, Shah N, Curlin ME, Leandrea LV, Kittinunvorakoon C, Kim A, Kassanjee R, Raengsakulrach B, Nguyen TA, Welte A, Martin M, Ampofo W, Parekh BS

PLoS One

(2015)

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114947
Independent assessment of candidate HIV incidence assays on specimens in the CEPHIA repository
Price MA, Martin JN, Little S, Hecht FM, Kassanjee R, Kallas EG, Welte A, Murphy G, Busch MP, Keating SM, Pilcher CD, Facente SN, McKinney E

AIDS

(2014)

https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000000429
Short Communication: Defining optimality of a test for recent infection for HIV incidence surveillance
Kassanjee R, Welte A, McWalter TA

AIDS Research And Human Retroviruses

(2014)

https://doi.org/10.1089/AID.2013.0113
A new general biomarker-based incidence estimator
Kassanjee R, Welte A, McWalter TA, Bärnighausen T

Epidemiology

(2012)

https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182576c07