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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sharon Fonn is a South African Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work has focused on cervical cancer, health systems and developing African capacity for public health research.
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Published Works
- Saving the lives of South Africa's mothers, babies, and children: can the health system deliver? (2009) (270)
- Report on consensus conference on cervical cancer screening and management (2000) (175)
- Workforce Resources for Health in Developing Countries (2010) (127)
- Building capacity for public and population health research in Africa: the consortium for advanced research training in Africa (CARTA) model (2010) (112)
- Prevalence of pre-cancerous lesions and cervical cancer in South Africa--a multicentre study. (2002) (96)
- Birth to ten: child health in South Africa in the 1990s. Rationale and methods of a birth cohort study. (1991) (78)
- An evaluation of Health Workers for Change in seven settings: a useful management and health system development tool. (2001) (63)
- Aligning vertical interventions to health systems: a case study of the HIV monitoring and evaluation system in South Africa (2012) (61)
- Health Workers for Change: developing the initiative. (2001) (61)
- Exploring corruption in the South African health sector. (2016) (61)
- Achieving effective cervical screening coverage in South Africa through human resources and health systems development (2008) (54)
- Health providers' opinions on provider-client relations: results of a multi-country study to test Health Workers for Change. (2001) (45)
- Repositioning Africa in global knowledge production (2018) (41)
- Infant mortality in South Africa - distribution, associations and policy implications, 2007: an ecological spatial analysis (2011) (39)
- South African medical schools: Current state of selection criteria and medical students' demographic profile. (2015) (38)
- Investing in African research training institutions creates sustainable capacity for Africa: the case of the University of the Witwatersrand School of Public Health masters programme in epidemiology and biostatistics (2012) (35)
- Activism: working to reduce maternal mortality through civil society and health professional alliances in sub-Saharan Africa (2012) (33)
- Reproductive health services in South Africa: from rhetoric to implementation. (1998) (32)
- Sexual autonomy and contraceptive use among women in Nigeria: findings from the Demographic and Health Survey data (2017) (29)
- Curriculum and training needs of mid-level health workers in Africa: a situational review from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda (2018) (29)
- Making Systems Work: The Hard Part of Improving Maternal Health Services in South Africa (2007) (29)
- Will clinical associates be effective for South Africa? (2012) (28)
- Innovation to improve health care provision and health systems in sub-Saharan Africa – Promoting agency in mid-level workers and district managers (2011) (28)
- Are social franchises contributing to universal access to reproductive health services in low-income countries? (2011) (28)
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights in public health education (2011) (27)
- The role of advocacy in implementing the South African abortion law (2000) (27)
- Maternal health services in South Africa. During the 10th anniversary of the WHO 'Safe Motherhood' initiative. (1998) (26)
- Relationship of respiratory health status to grain dust in a Witwatersrand grain mill: comparison of workers' exposure assessments with industrial hygiene survey findings. (1993) (25)
- A blood-result turn-around time survey to improve congenital syphilis prevention in a rural area. (1996) (25)
- Global public health starts at home: upstream approaches to global health training. (2019) (24)
- Health Workers for Change as a health systems management and development tool. (2001) (24)
- Developing a new mid-level health worker: lessons from South Africa's experience with clinical associates (2013) (23)
- Building the capacity to solve complex health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa: CARTA’S multidisciplinary PhD training (2016) (23)
- 'Birth to Ten'--pilot studies to test the feasibility of a birth cohort study investigating the effects of urbanisation in South Africa. (1991) (23)
- Analysing child linear growth trajectories among under-5 children in two Nairobi informal settlements (2019) (18)
- Exploring the use of social network analysis to measure communication between disease programme and district managers at sub-national level in South Africa. (2015) (16)
- Linking public health training and health systems development in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities for improvement and collaboration (2011) (16)
- Towards a National Screening Policy for Cancer of the Cervix in South Africa (1993) (15)
- Nesting doctoral students in collaborative North–South partnerships for health systems research (2014) (14)
- Occupational health and safety in South Africa: the perspectives of capital, state and unions. (1988) (13)
- An environmental and respiratory health survey of workers in a grain mill in the Johannesburg area, South Africa. (1993) (12)
- Increasing collaborative research output between early-career health researchers in Africa: lessons from the CARTA fellowship program (2020) (12)
- Administrative integration of vertical HIV monitoring and evaluation into health systems: a case study from South Africa. (2013) (12)
- Safeguarding maternal and child health in South Africa by starting the Child Support Grant before birth: Design lessons from pregnancy support programmes in 27 countries. (2016) (12)
- The influence of health system organizational structure and culture on integration of health services: the example of HIV service monitoring in South Africa. (2016) (10)
- Enhancing science preparedness for health emergencies in Africa through research capacity building (2020) (10)
- Documentation of ill-health effects of occupational exposure to grain dust through sequential, coherent epidemiologic investigation. (1994) (10)
- Factors associated with recovery from stunting among under-five children in two Nairobi informal settlements (2019) (10)
- Gender responsive multidisciplinary doctoral training program: the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) experience (2019) (9)
- Immunisation coverage estimates by cluster sampling survey of children (aged 12-23 months) in Gauteng province, 2003 (2006) (9)
- Family influences on child nutritional outcomes in Nairobi's informal settlements (2019) (9)
- The macroeconomic environment and sexual and reproductive health: a review of trends over the last 30 years (2011) (9)
- A South African university-practitioner partnership to strengthen capacity in social and behaviour change communication (2013) (8)
- Abortion Law in South Africa: Passage of a Progressive Law and Challenges for Implementation (2003) (8)
- Human resource requirements for introducing cervical screening--who do we need where? (2003) (7)
- Confronting HIV/AIDS in a South African village : The impact of health-seeking behaviour. Commentary (2007) (7)
- Youth underrepresentation as a barrier to sexual and reproductive healthcare access in Kasulu district, Tanzania: A qualitative thematic analysis (2020) (7)
- Administrative integration of vertical HIV monitoring and evaluation into health systems: a case study from South Africa (2013) (7)
- Developing a new mid-level health worker: lessons from South Africa's experience with clinical associates. (2013) (7)
- Safeguarding maternal and child health in South Africa by starting the child support grant before birth: Design lessons from pregnancy support programmes in 27 countries (2016) (6)
- Affording unavoidable emergency surgical care – The lived experiences and payment coping strategies of households in Ibadan metropolis, Southwestern Nigeria (2020) (6)
- Evaluations of health research capacity strengthening: a review of the evidence (2012) (6)
- Termination of pregnancy. (1999) (6)
- South Africa's COVID-19 Tracing Database: Risks and rewards of which doctors should be aware. (2020) (6)
- Prevalence and factors associated with catastrophic health expenditure among slum and non-slum dwellers undergoing emergency surgery in a metropolitan area of South Western Nigeria (2021) (6)
- Nesting doctoral students in collaborative North-South partnerships for health systems research. (2014) (6)
- Not Only What You Do, But How You Do It: Working with Health Care Practitioners on Gender Equality (2003) (5)
- Effective supervision of doctoral students in public and population health in Africa: CARTA supervisors’ experiences, challenges and perceived opportunities (2020) (5)
- Preparatory report for workshop on maternity and neonatal services policy for the PWV. (1995) (5)
- Decisive and strong leadership and intersectoral action from South Africa in response to the COVID-19 virus. (2020) (5)
- Measuring administrative integration of disease control programmes within health systems: a case study of HIV monitoring and evaluation in South Africa (2014) (4)
- Quantifying the cost of in-kind contributions to a multidonor-funded health research capacity-building programme: the case of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (2020) (4)
- CARTA fellows’ scientific contribution to the African public and population Health Research agenda (2011 to 2018) (2020) (4)
- Cytological screening for cervical cancer--what are its opportunity costs? (1997) (4)
- Desirable Services and Guidelines for the Treatment and Palliative Care of HIV Disease Patients with Cancer in Africa: A World Health Organization Consultation * (2003) (4)
- Transforming Reproductive Health Services in South Africa: Women's Health Advocates and Government in Partnership (2002) (3)
- Informing Research on HIV Prevention: a consultation 16-18 September 1998 Johannesburg South Africa. (1999) (3)
- Institutionalizing research capacity strengthening in LMICs: A systematic review and meta-synthesis. (2020) (2)
- A South African university-practitioner partnership to strengthen capacity in social and behaviour change communication. (2013) (2)
- Institutionalizing research capacity strengthening in LMICs: A systematic review and meta-synthesis (2021) (2)
- Positioning Africa’s public health doctoral students to lead societal transformation and development (2022) (2)
- At what age are South African women first having sex? (2003) (1)
- BUILDING NEW KNOWLEDGE (2013) (1)
- Experiential Learning: The Game as a Teaching Tool to Reach Multiple Audiences and Cross-Disciplinary Divides (2016) (1)
- Current status and future prospects of epidemiology and public health training and research in the WHO African region. (2013) (1)
- Considerations for an integrated population health databank in Africa: lessons from global best practices (2021) (1)
- Maternal health services in (1998) (1)
- Comment: Healthcare and livelihoods (2007) (1)
- A cervical screening strategy for South Africa. (1994) (1)
- Building new knowledge: Celebrating the Wits School of Public Health (WSPH) (2013) (1)
- A CERVICAL SCREENING STRATEGY FOR SOUTH AFRICA. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1994) (0)
- Condom Counseling in Microbicide Testing: A Right of Choice (2000) (0)
- Israel–Gaza conflict (2014) (0)
- Acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to improve agency among African district health managers: A four-country study (2021) (0)
- Comparison of household expenditure between urban slum and non-slum dwellers in a Southwestern metropolis, Nigeria (2019) (0)
- Research Translation Mission for Ifakara Health Institute (2012) (0)
- Association of birch pollen and air pollution with asthma-control questionnaire scores among individuals with allergic asthma in Sweden (2021) (0)
- LMICs: A systematic review and meta-synthesis [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] (2020) (0)
- Preventing cancer deaths in women: screening for cancer of the cervix in South Africa. (1993) (0)
- Understanding the impact of the COVID‑19 pandemic on healthcare services for adults during three waves of COVID‑19 infections: A South African private sector experience (2023) (0)
- Institutionalizing research capacity strengthening in LMICs: A systematic review and meta-synthesis. (2020) (0)
- Applying theory in practice, some experience in incorporating gender analysis in health programming (1999) (0)
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