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Stephen Tollman
Researcher at University of the Witwatersrand
Publications - 360
Citations - 15820
Stephen Tollman is an academic researcher from University of the Witwatersrand. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Public health. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 317 publications receiving 13199 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen Tollman include University of Colorado Boulder & Institut de recherche pour le développement.
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The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa.
Bongani M. Mayosi,Alan J. Flisher,Umesh G. Lalloo,Freddy Sitas,Stephen Tollman,Stephen Tollman,Debbie Bradshaw +6 more
TL;DR: The launching of a national initiative to establish sites of service excellence in urban and rural settings throughout South Africa to trial, assess, and implement integrated care interventions for chronic infectious and non-communicable diseases is urged.
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The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa
Deepti Gurdasani,Tommy Carstensen,Tommy Carstensen,Fasil Tekola-Ayele,Luca Pagani,Ioanna Tachmazidou,Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas,Savita Karthikeyan,Savita Karthikeyan,Louise Iles,Martin O. Pollard,Ananyo Choudhury,Graham R. S. Ritchie,Yali Xue,Jennifer L. Asimit,Rebecca N. Nsubuga,Elizabeth H. Young,Elizabeth H. Young,Cristina Pomilla,Cristina Pomilla,Katja Kivinen,K Rockett,Anatoli Kamali,Ayo P. Doumatey,Gershim Asiki,Janet Seeley,Fatoumatta Sisay-Joof,Muminatou Jallow,Stephen Tollman,Ephrem Mekonnen,Rosemary Ekong,Tamiru Oljira,Neil Bradman,Kalifa Bojang,Michèle Ramsay,Adebowale Adeyemo,Endashaw Bekele,Ayesha A. Motala,Shane A. Norris,Fraser J. Pirie,Pontiano Kaleebu,Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,Chris Tyler-Smith,Charles N. Rotimi,Eleftheria Zeggini,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Manjinder S. Sandhu +46 more
TL;DR: It is shown that modern imputation panels (sets of reference genotypes from which unobserved or missing genotypes in study sets can be inferred) can identify association signals at highly differentiated loci across populations in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move
Ibrahim Abubakar,Robert W Aldridge,Delan Devakumar,Miriam Orcutt,Rachel Burns,Mauricio Lima Barreto,Poonam Dhavan,Fouad M. Fouad,Nora Groce,Yan Guo,Sally Hargreaves,Sally Hargreaves,Michael Knipper,J. Jaime Miranda,Nyovani Madise,Bernadette N. Kumar,Davide Mosca,Terry McGovern,Leonard S. Rubenstein,Peter Sammonds,Susan M Sawyer,Susan M Sawyer,Kabir Sheikh,Kabir Sheikh,Stephen Tollman,Paul Spiegel,Cathy Zimmerman,J. Jaime Miranda,Mustafa Abbas,Eleanor Acer,Ayesha Ahmad,Seye Abimbola,Karl Blanchet,Philippe Bocquier,Fiona Samuels,Olga Byrne,Sonia Haerizadeh,Rita Issa,Mark A. Collinson,Carren Ginsburg,Ilan Kelman,Alys McAlpine,Nicola S. Pocock,Barbara Olshansky,Dandara de Oliveira Ramos,Michael J. White,Suzanne Zhou +46 more
TL;DR: The most prominent dialogue focuses almost exclusively on migration from LMICs to high-income countries (HICs), where nationalist movements assert so-called cultural sovereignty by delineating an us versus them rhetoric, creating a moral emergency.
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Profile: Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System
Kathleen Kahn,Mark A. Collinson,F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé,Obed Mokoena,Rhian Twine,Paul Mee,Sulaimon Afolabi,Benjamin Clark,Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula,Audrey Khosa,Simon Khoza,Mildred G Shabangu,Bernard Silaule,Jeffrey B Tibane,Ryan G. Wagner,Michel Garenne,Samuel J. Clark,Stephen Tollman +17 more
TL;DR: Efforts to enhance the research platform include using automated measurement techniques to estimate cause of death by verbal autopsy, full ‘reconciliation’ of in- and out-migrations, follow-up of migrants departing the study area, and optimizing public access to HDSS data are priorities.
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Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities
Mickey Chopra,Mickey Chopra,Joy E Lawn,Joy E Lawn,David Sanders,Peter Barron,Salim S. Abdool Karim,Salim S. Abdool Karim,Debbie Bradshaw,Rachel Jewkes,Rachel Jewkes,Quarraisha Abdool Karim,Quarraisha Abdool Karim,Alan J. Flisher,Bongani M. Mayosi,Stephen Tollman,Gavin J. Churchyard,Hoosen M. Coovadia,Hoosen M. Coovadia +18 more
TL;DR: The type of vision, leadership, and priority actions needed to achieve such a change in the health trajectory of the country, and even meet the MDGs are discussed.