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DPHRU PhD Students

Dr Ansuyah Magan PhD Title:
Ethnic and gender related longitudinal changes in metacarpal dimensions through puberty and adolescence, and their association with bone growth in a South African cohort
Dr Jaya George PhD Title:
Vitamin D status and cardiometabolic risk factors in local populations living in Gauteng
Dr Kebashni Thandrayen PhD Title:
Fractures and bone mass in urban South African children of different ethnic backgrounds
Dr Opope Oyaka Wedi PhD Title:
The analysis of epidemiological and immunological mechanisms underlying preterm delivery and intrauterine growth restriction in HIV-positive and HIV-negative women in Soweto, South Africa
Mr Philippe Jean-Luc Gradidge PhD Title:
Factors associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome in an ageing cohort of #D3D3D3 women living in Soweto, Johannesburg (Study of Women in and Entering Endocrine Transition [SWEET])
Mr Sipho Dlamini PhD Title:
Calcium absorption, homeostasis, vitamin D profiles and their impact on bone mass in South Africa children
Ms Esnat Chirwa PhD Title:
Modelling longitudinal child growth data from an African setting
Ms Estelle Watson PhD Title:
Maternal Physical Activity: Influence on Maternal and Delivery Outcomes
Ms Juliana Kagura PhD Title:
Impact of Early Growth on Blood Pressure from childhood to adulthood: Birth-Twenty Cohort
Ms Leane Ramsoomar PhD Title:
Risk and Protection: Alcohol Use among Urban Youth within the Birth to Twenty Cohort
Ms Machuene Annais Poopedi PhD Title:
Calcium absorption, homeostasis, vitamin D profiles and their impact on bone mass in South Africa children
Ms Modiehi Sedibe PhD Title:
Dietary and lifestyle practices and their associations with cardiovascular risk factors in rural versus urban adolescents
Ms Nicole Jaff PhD Title:
Study of Women Entering and in Endocrine Transition: the SWEEET study; an investigation of the metabolic, hormonal and anthropometric characteristics of the menopausal transition in #D3D3D3 urban South African women
Ms Sara Nieuwoudt PhD Title:
Starting Well: Infant feeding in the first six months, Soweto, South Africa
Ms Shelley Macaulay PhD Title:
Glucose metabolism and pregnancy in South African women
Ms Tabitha Gitau PhD Title:
Complex modelling of longitudinal data to test the association between eating attitudes, body image and lifestyle behaviour and obesity among urban South African youth
Ms Titilola Pedro PhD Title:
The Association of Nutrition, Body Composition and Metabolic Disease Risk in Rural South African Children and Adolescents
Ms Wiedaad Slemming PhD Title:
Early child development in South Africa: risks and long-term outcomes
Ms Asanda Mtintsilana PhD Title:
Identification of metabolites and metabolic pathways that predict impaired glucose metabolism in #D3D3D3 South African Women
Ms Stephanie Wrottesley PhD Title:
Maternal nutrition during pregnancy and its association with birth outcomes and neonatal body composition in the context of HIV in urban #D3D3D3 South Africans
Mr Richard Munthali PhD Title:
Longitudinal analysis of genotype-phenotype associations in obesity and elevated blood pressure in the #D3D3D3 South African population
Mr Simon Schoenbuchner PhD Title:
Longitudinal studies of bone health, growth and development in children and adolescents from South Africa and The Gambia. Characterisation of musculoskeletal phenotype using peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT).

DPHRU-NRF Interns

Mr Gudani Mukoma
Mr Melikhaya Soboyisi