Tumelo Sereo, MSc
PhD Student
Tumelo Sereo is a PhD student at SACEMA. His PhD research focuses on developing an HIV compartmental model to assess the impact of Dolutegravir (DTG) and other HIV interventions in rural South Africa, specifically in KwaZulu-Natal. His previous work involved analysing infectious disease outbreaks in real time, including the assessment of a measles outbreak in South Africa and evaluating the potential magnitude of a poliovirus outbreak in Southern Africa. Tumelo holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics, with a thesis entitled: Population-level consideration for the treatment of lethal diseases in resource-limited settings.
Project title
Charting the path towards HIV elimination in South Africa: Modeling the Impact of the introduction of Dolutegravir and the changing patterns of HIV incidence (2000 – 2040)
Supervisor(s)
Dr Larisse Bolton, A/Prof Diego Cuadros, Dr Hae-Young Kim, Prof Frank Tanser
