James Hargreaves BSc MSc PhD

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Background

I am a senior lecturer in epidemiology, with a focus in social epidemiology. My primary interest in recent years has been in the socioeconomic epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis and in developing interventions to address these public health issues.

Teaching

I teach on a wide variety of courses. I co-organise a module in Social Epidemiology, give lectures on courses in Basic Epidemiology, the summer Intensive Courses in Epidemiology and Meidcal Statistics, AIDS, Health Promotion Theory and Principles and Practice of Health Promotion. I also contribute to teaching on the first term course Extended Epidemiology.

Research

In recent years I have published papers on educational attainment and socioeconomic status and their relationship to risk of HIV in Africa. More recently, I have been developing tools for the measurement of socio-economic factors in epidemiological research. In my current work I am a core member of the research team running the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity Study (IMAGE). This is a prospective 3 year, matched and randomised community intervention trial on the role of a community based poverty alleviation and gender empowerment programme in changing sexual behaviour and preventing HIV infection.

Selected publications

• Hargreaves, J.R.; Bonell, C.P.; Boler, T.; Boccia, D.; Birdthistle, I.; Fletcher, A.; Pronyk, P.M.; Glynn, J.R.; Systematic review exploring time trends in the association between educational attainment and risk of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS, 2008; 22(3):403-14
• Pronyk, P.M.; Hargreaves, J.R.; Kim, J.C.; Morison, L.A.; Phetla, G.; Watts, C.; Busza, J.; Porter, J.D.H. Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomised trial Lancet, 2006; 368(9551):1973-1983
• Hargreaves, J.R.; Bonell, C.P.; Morison, L.A.; Kim, J.C.; Phetla, G.; Porter, J.D.; Watts, C.; Pronyk, P.M.; Explaining continued high HIV prevalence in South Africa: socioeconomic factors, HIV incidence and sexual behaviour change among a rural cohort, 2001-2004. AIDS, 2007; 21 Suppl 7:S39-48
• Hargreaves, J.R.; Morison, L.A.; Gear, J.S.S.; Makhubele, M.B.; Porter, J.D.H.; Busza, J.; Watts, C.; Kim, J.C.; Pronyk, P.M. "Hearing the voices of the poor": Assigning poverty lines on the basis of local perceptions of poverty. A quantitative analysis of qualitative data from participatory wealth ranking in rural South Africa World Development, 2007; 35(2):212-229
• Hargreaves, J.R.; Morison, L.A.; Kim, J.C.; Bonell, C.P.; Porter, J.D.; Watts, C.; Busza, J.; Phetla, G.; Pronyk, P.M.; The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2008; 62(2):113-9
• Pronyk, P.M.; Hargreaves, J.R.; Morduch, J. Microfinance programs and better health - Prospects for sub-Saharan Africa Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007; 298(16):1925-1927
• Hargreaves, J.; Hatcher, A.; Strange, V.; Phetla, G.; Busza, J.; Kim, J.; Watts, C.; Morison, L.; Porter, J.; Pronyk, P.; Bonell, C.; Process evaluation of the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE) in rural South Africa. Health Educ Res, 2009;
• Cousens, S.; Hargreaves, J.; Bonell, C.; Armstrong, B.; Thomas, J.; Kirkwood, B.R.; Hayes, R.; Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public-health interventions: statistical analysis and causal inference. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2009;

Full publications listing (since 2001)