The appointment will be based in London in the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health in the Department of Population Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The appointment is available from 1 January 2017 for 4 … Continue reading
The Population Council seeks a Senior Research Manager (2 yrs renewable) to provide leadership, professional representation, and skillful management of the Council’s research, resources, and relationships in Malawi. At this time, these activities are within Project SOAR (Supporting Operational AIDS … Continue reading
Tyler H. McCormick, Zehang Richard Li, Clara Calvert, Amelia C. Crampin, Kathleen Kahn & Samuel J. Clark (2016): Probabilistic Cause-of-death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2016.1152191
Dasgupta AN, Wringe A, Crampin AC, Chisambo C, Koole O, Makombe S, Sungani C, Todd J, Church K. HIV policy and implementation: a national policy review and an implementation case study of a rural area of northern Malawi. AIDS care. … Continue reading
Chodziwadziwa Kabudula presented on Enhancing Demographic Datasets Through Record Linkage in an invited session on the Data Revolution in Africa: Recent Developments in Practice A pdf of the presentation is available here.
New publication documenting that differences in fertility between HIV positive and HIV negative women are narrowing as ART becomes more widely available: Marston, M., Nakiyingi-Miiro, J., Hosegood, V., Lutalo, T., Mtenga, B., Zaba, B., & ALPHA network. (2016). Measuring … Continue reading
Data Resource Profile: Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA Network), Int J Epidemiol. 2016, vol45(1):83-93.
Jeffrey Eaton presented on work from the HIV Modelling Consortium Writing Group on ART Eligibility Guidelines (with inputs from the ALPHA Network) in Session O-10 (abstract 117): HIV Mortality by Care Cascade Stage and Implications for Universal ART Eligibility (webcast) … Continue reading
Two scholarship opportunities for PhD research using data from the ALPHA network through the MRC LID scheme(http://mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/). The topics are (i) changes in sexual behaviour and partnerships in the context of HIV testing and treatment in Tanzania (supervisor Emma Slaymaker), … Continue reading
Asiki, G., Reniers, G., Newton, R., Baisley, K., Nakiyingi-Miiro, J., Slaymaker, E., … & Kamali, A. (2015). Adult life expectancy trends in the era of antiretroviral treatment in rural Uganda (1991-2012). AIDS.