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1 CONTACT DETAILS Cape Town Esmé Jordaan Specialist Tel: Interest areas: Finite Mixture models with a focus on Latent Class Models; Growth mixture modelling with normal and non-normal data; (Pragmatic) Randomised controlled trials; Structural Equations modelling including Measurement models such as the Rasch model; Agreement for categorical data and loglinear modeling in contingency tables; Clinical research areas include sport science and psychiatric research. Ria Laubscher Senior ria.laubscher@mrc.ac.za Tel: Interest areas: Mortality Profiles; Database Management; Nutritional Data Analyses Graphical display of data Sonja Swanevelder Senior sonja.swanevelder@mrc.ac.za Tel: Interest areas: Medical & Sport Biostatistics with special interest in Randomised Controlled Trials, Correlated data, Regression analyses and Survival Analyses. Nomonde Gwebushe nomonde.gwebushe@mrc.ac.za Tel: Interest areas: Clinical and cluster randomised controlled trials; Application of general linear models and linear mixed models; Logistic Regression Mikateko Cynthia Mazinu Junior mikateko.mazinu@mrc.ac.za Tel: Interest areas: Logistic regression modelling, clinical and randomised controlled trails.

2 Prof Carl Lombard Consultant Tel: Interest areas: Analysis and design of clinical trials especially cluster randomized trials. Statistical aspects of data and safety monitoring of clinical trials. Analysis of correlated data with respect to recurrent events, longitudinal design and the joint modeling of responses and survey analysis. Dr Averalda Van Graan Manager of SAFOODS and dietary intake assessment Tel: Joelaine Chetty Research Dietitian, Food Compilation RD (SA) MPH Tel: Interested Areas: Food composition database management and maintenance; food compilation software development; food composition website maintenance; recipe calculation methodology; networking with food industry and food labelling assistance; public health nutrition in lifecycle; nutrition advocacy and food composition training. Malory Jumat Chief Research Technologist - Food Compilation (MSc Nutrition) malory.links@mrc.ac.za Tel: Interest areas: Food composition database management and maintenance; food compilation software development; food composition training, food quantity estimations, chemical analysis of food, analytical methodology, photochemistry and health, application development

3 ADMINISTRATION Jessica Petersen Senior Officer (Secretary) P O Box 19070, Tygerberg, 7505, South Africa Tel: Fax: Jessica.petersen@mrc.ac.za Amanda Fourie Senior Encoder amanda.fourie@mrc.ac.za Tel:

4 Pretoria Prof Samuel OM Manda Acting Director Tel: Interest areas: Methodological research: Bayesian and nonparametric statistics; joint modelling of longitudinal and recurrent-events data and multivariate spatial statistics. Application research: Maternal and child health outcomes in Africa; TB, HIV/AIDS and vascular disease outcomes; and mortality data in South Africa and the sub-saharan Africa. Dr Steve Olorunju Specialist Tel: Interest areas: Experimental Designs: Clinical and Cluster Randomized Trials; Analysis of Complex Surveys; Environmental Health; Drug trials, Family Health, Drug Use and abuse; Lecturing and Supervision of students. Charl Janse Van Rensburg Tel: Interest areas: Utilising Big Data in healthcare; Bayesian and nonparametric statistics; bioinformatics; multilevel modelling. Tshifhiwa M Nkwenika Junior Tshifhiwa.nkwenika@mrc.ac.za Tel: Interest areas: Logistic regression and Discriminant analysis modelling, clinical randomized trails. ADMINISTRATION Emily Gomes Chief Officer emily.gomes@mrc.ac.za Tel:

5 Durban Tarylee Reddy Senior Tel: Interest areas: HIV/AIDS Surveys; multistate Markov models, joint modelling of longitudinal and time to event data, missing data analysis Natashia Morris Research Support Manager: GIS Tel: Interest areas: Spatial analysis, mapping, spatial statistics, surveillance, decision support, monitoring and evaluation of public health interventions, health systems optimisation using geospatial tools and techniques, free and open source software for geospatial application, socio-demographic analysis, mobile device technologies. Yusentha Balakrishna Tel: Interest areas: Nutritional data analysis, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, multivariate analysis, incidence estimation. Nada Abdelatif Tel: ADMINISTRATION Thabisile Mvuyana Data Encoder Tel:

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