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Ashraf Kagee and Katherine Sorsdahl: Team at Stellenbosch University

This document summarizes the research interests and focus areas of several teams and professors at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. It outlines their work in epidemiological research on common mental disorders, scale development and validation, intervention research, and specific areas like PTSD, stress disorders, neuroAIDS, and schizophrenia. Key researchers mentioned include Professors Ashraf Kagee, Katherine Sorsdahl, Mark Tomlinson, Leslie Swartz, and Soraya Seedat.

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Ashraf Kagee and Katherine Sorsdahl: Team at Stellenbosch University

This document summarizes the research interests and focus areas of several teams and professors at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. It outlines their work in epidemiological research on common mental disorders, scale development and validation, intervention research, and specific areas like PTSD, stress disorders, neuroAIDS, and schizophrenia. Key researchers mentioned include Professors Ashraf Kagee, Katherine Sorsdahl, Mark Tomlinson, Leslie Swartz, and Soraya Seedat.

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Ashraf Kagee and Katherine Sorsdahl

Co-Directors, Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental


Health, Stellenbosch University and University of Cape
Town

Team at Stellenbosch University


Prof. Mark Tomlinson: Partnership for Alcohol and AIDS Intervention Research (PAAIR)
Prof. Leslie Swartz: Behavioral aspects of HIV vaccine trial enrolment; language and
mental health; disability studies
Dr. Jason Bantjes: Common mental disorders, deliberate self-harm among PLWH
Dr. Rizwana Roomaney: Quality of life, mood disturbance among women with health
conditions, e.g. endometriosis, cancer, infertility.
Dr. Bronwyne Coetzee: Adherence to antiretroviral therapy; fatigue and depression
among adolescents living with HIV (with colleagues at University of Bath)
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Research interests
• Epidemiological research: studies investigating the prevalence,
correlates, and consequences of common mental disorders among
specific populations, e.g. PLWH, older persons, adolescent
population.
• Scale development & validation: need for instruments that are
locally developed and validated to assess unique features of
psychiatric distress in SSA.
• Sensitivity and specificity of screening instruments to detect
common mental disorders in various populations.

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Research interests
Intervention Research:
• psychological interventions to reduce symptoms of depression,
traumatization, anxiety, and suicidality among specific populations
• Task-sharing – feasibility, acceptability, training needs, effectiveness of
implementing task-sharing in contexts such as treatment for various common
mental disorders among various populations such PLWHA, cancer, caregivers
of disabled persons, adherence counselling, etc.
• Mental health interventions and its effects on financial well-being of families,
employment, and worker absenteeism and presenteeism.
• Implementation Science

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Prof. Soraya Seedat
• Executive Head & Distinguished Professor
• South African Research Chair in PTSD

leads 3 research programs:


1) PTSD Research Program (South African Research Chair Initiative
– SARChI)
2) South African Medical Research Council (MRC) Flagship Study
(SHARED ROOTS)
3) Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Epidemiological Research Team
Research Focus Areas of the
Department of Psychiatry
• PTSD and stress-related disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Schizophrenia
• NeuroAIDS
• Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
• Maternal-infant mental health
• Global mental health, in collaboration with other LMICs
• South African Microbiome Initiative in Neuroscience
Schizophrenia Group
Clinical, cognitive, pharmacogenomics, neuroimaging, psychopharmacology

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