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Postgraduate PhD Students<\/h2>\n

The DTTC has a strong focus on capacity building and transformation. Our current PhD degree students include:<\/p>\n

Nosivuyile Vanqa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Healthcare workers as mediators of drug-resistant (DR-) Tuberculosis (TB) information in the Western Cape Province, South Africa<\/p>\n

Margaret van Niekerk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nutrition and TB<\/p>\n

Jennnifer Hughes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carien Bekker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heidi van Deventer<\/strong><\/p>\n

The long-term impact of PTB on lung health<\/p>\n

Damian Hacking<\/strong><\/p>\n

Measuring the impact of scale up of Single Patient Viewer on TB and HIV patients\u2019 quality of care in Western Cape, South Africa<\/p>\n

Etuhole Iipumbu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Family, Social, and Intimate partner relationships among adolescents and young adults affected by Tuberculosis
\nin Namibia<\/p>\n

Ivonne Makando<\/strong><\/p>\n

Developing an Integrated Spatiotemporal and Network-Based Framework for Mapping Tuberculosis Dynamics in Namibia<\/p>\n

Johanna Namene<\/strong><\/p>\n

Micronutrient concentrations in children and adolescents with tuberculosis in South Africa<\/p>\n

Dzunisani Baloyi<\/strong><\/p>\n

TB meningitis care for children<\/p>\n

Agostinho Lima<\/strong><\/p>\n

Evaluating the use of Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound (POCUS) in the detection and management of respiratory diseases in children in the Manhi\u00e7a District, Mozambique<\/p>\n

Ingrid Courtney<\/strong><\/p>\n

Implementation considerations to improvie TB preventive therapy trials in children and adolescents<\/p>\n

Lise-Marie Laubscher<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elri Du Plooy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adeno\/ ICU<\/p>\n

Anda Macaleni<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Redfern<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lung ultrasound and childhood pneumonia\/TB - TBC<\/p>\n

Erika Mohr-Holland<\/strong><\/p>\n

TBD TB Prevention<\/p>\n

Victoria Namukuta<\/strong><\/p>\n

TBD (Maternal TB)<\/p>\n

Join our team<\/h2>\n

Please visit the Stellenbosch University website to find available positions at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre:<\/p>\n

ENQUIRE NOW<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postgraduate PhD Students The DTTC has a strong focus on capacity building and transformation. Our current PhD degree students include: Nosivuyile Vanqa Healthcare workers as mediators of drug-resistant (DR-) Tuberculosis (TB) information in the Western Cape Province, South Africa Margaret van Niekerk Nutrition and TB Jennnifer Hughes Carien Bekker Heidi van Deventer The long-term impact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-staff.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/dttc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/dttc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/dttc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/dttc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/dttc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/dttc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/dttc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/4517"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/dttc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/dttc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}