Geetesh.Solanki@mrc.ac

1 CONTACT DETAILS Catherine Mathews Director Chief Specialist Scientist Tel: +27 21 938-0247 Catherine Mathews is a scientist and director in the health Systems research Unit, based in the Cape Town office of the Medical research Council. She is also an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, in the School of Public health and Family Medicine and in the Adolescent health research Unit of the Department of Psychiatry and mental health . Her work is in the field of HIV prevention and adolescent sexual and reproductive health . Her research includes evaluations of HIV prevention programmes for young adolescents, focussing on school health systems. It also includes evaluations of clinic-based HIV and STI prevention programmes.

2 She is an editor for the Cochrane Sexually Transmitted Infections Review Group. Ameena Goga Deputy Director Chief Specialist Scientist Tel: +27 12 339-8524 Ameena Goga is a paediatrician with a strong interest in preventing maternal and child co-morbidity, the epidemiology of early childhood illnesses, and community paediatrics. Her research over the past ten years her research has focused on infant feeding and the early and late population-level impact of the South African Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme. She holds an Extraordinary Professorship at the Department of Paediatrics and Child health , University of Pretoria. Tanya Doherty Chief Specialist Scientist Tel: +27 21 938-0454 Tanya Doherty is a chief specialist scientist with a focus on maternal and child health research including prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, infant feeding, multi-country child survival evaluations and community health workers.

3 Tanya is an Extraordinary Professor in the School of Public health at the University of the Western Cape and Honorary Professor in the School of Public health , University of the Witwatersrand. Arvin Bhana Chief Specialist Scientist Tel: +27 31 203-4892 Arvin Bhana is a clinical psychologist whose research focuses on child and adolescent mental health and well-being and the integration of mental health into primary care among adults. His work in child and adolescent mental health uses evidence-based approaches to promote resilience mechanisms. Implementation science approaches are used to scale up integration of mental health into primary care among adults. His research also extends to brief interventions for substance use and psychosocial and mental health interventions for adolescents living with HIV.

4 Arvin is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Centre for Rural health in the School of Nursing and Public health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is also a lead investigator in the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development at the University of Witwatersrand. Arvin is an associate member in the Adolescent health research Unit of the Department of Psychiatry and mental health , and the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug research Unit at SAMRC. Geetesh Solanki Senior Specialist Scientist Tel: +27 21 938-0454 Geetesh Solanki is a health economist and qualified as a dentist in 1984. He went on to complete a BA Honours in Sociology at the University of the Western Cape, a Masters in Public health at the University College, London, and a Doctorate in health Policy and Administration at the University of California at Berkeley.

5 He has over 20 years experience consulting to medical schemes, employers, and health care provider groups. Geetesh s main focus is on research around health care utilisation and expenditure related to ageing and at the end of the life. Geetesh is also an Associate health Researcher at the health Economics Unit, School of Public health , University of Cape Emmanuelle Daviaud Senior Specialist Scientist Tel: +27 21 938-0454 (27) 083 302 3561 Emmanuelle Daviaud is a health economist and senior specialist scientist. Her main focus is on economic evaluation and human resources planning in South Africa and other African countries. Her work includes development of Human Resource Planning model for PHC re-engineering in South-Africa, multi-country economic evaluation of community-based programs to decrease neonatal mortality, costing of community case management in six African countries, assessing cost-effectiveness of MDR-TB treatment in different platforms of delivery, and assessing cost-effectiveness of using Mhealth to strengthen diabetics adherence.

6 Simon Lewin Chief Specialist Scientist Simon Lewin is a health systems researcher at the MRC and at the Norwegian Institute of Public health . His work is largely within the field of implementation research , including systematic reviews of complex health interventions; the evaluation of strategies for changing professional and consumer behaviours; and methods for qualitative evidence synthesis. He is currently working on a new approach for assessing how much confidence to place in findings from qualitative evidence syntheses; on evidence-based strategies for improving communication about childhood vaccination; and on supporting research evidence use in low- and middle-income countries. He is a joint Co-ordinating Editor for the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group.

7 Marian Loveday Specialist Scientist Tel: +27 33 345-2778, 082 441 7040 Marian Loveday is a specialist scientist with a focus on TB, drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) and health systems research . Her research over the last eight years has focussed on evaluating different models of care for DR-TB patients across South Africa and how health systems performance impacts on programme performance. This work has included documenting the experiences of patients with DR-TB, the caregivers of children with DR-TB and health care worker experiences. Karen Daniels Specialist Scientist Tel: +27 21 938-0836/0911 Karen Daniels is a social scientist working in the field of public health research . She regards herself as an activist at heart and considers research another site of social activism.

8 She started out as a qualitative researcher after training in English and History, but her interest in health led her to an MPH (UCT) and a (NHV). Over the years she has gained a wide range of experience within the field of health policy and systems research . She has been engaged in projects focused on infectious diseases, human resource solutions, evidence use in policy, gender and policy and policy implementation. Currently she leads the South African Initiative for Systematic Reviews on health Policies and Systems (SAI). She is also the lead investigator for a review on incentives for lay health workers, and a co-investigator and post graduate supervisor on several qualitative studies. Natalie Leon Specialist Scientist Tel: +27 21 938-0454 Natalie Leon is a specialist scientist who focusses on two key research strategies to contribute health systems evidence: process evaluations alongside complex interventions and evidence synthesis.

9 Her process evaluation research findings have shown the importance of the health system context in shaping outcomes in a range of service delivery areas studied, including testing the effectiveness of provider-initiated HIV testing, analysing development of rapid diagnostics for MDR-TB, the UNICEF Integrated health System Strengthening (IHSS) programme and evaluation of scalability of innovative mHealth care for community-based and chronic care. Her evidence synthesis research includes quantitative systematic reviews of routine health information and relatively new qualitative synthesis methods (task shifting for safe home-based abortion care and mHealth care). She is currently leading a multi-country, multi-stage process evaluation of a mHealth, text message-based randomised controlled trial for adherence to diabetes care and is co-investigator for an innovative study aimed at harnessing routine health information for facility and community-based collaboration on increasing linkage to HIV care for men.

10 She is an Honorary Assistant Professor at Brown University USA. Nobubelo Ngandu Specialist Scientist Tel: + 27 21 938 0316 Nobubelo Ngandu is an HIV Computational Biologist with further training in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her previous PhD and postdoctoral work at the University of Cape Town, involved application of Bio-informatics techniques in modelling HIV molecular evolution driven by pressure from host cytotoxic immune responses, using virus strains infecting the Southern African adult population. Her current main research interests are in HIV molecular evolution due to pressure from host immune response and antiretroviral therapy in the context of mother-to-child HIV transmission and epidemiology.