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Prof Saidi Kapiga

Professor of Epidemiology & Intl. Health

Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit
Isamilo Road
11936 Mwanza
Tanzania

Tel.
+44(0)2079272676

Saidi Kapiga joined the School in 2007, and is a clinical epidemiologist. Prior to coming to the School, he was an Associate Professor of Reproductive Health at Harvard School of Public Health, MA, USA. Saidi is currently based fulltime in Mwanza, Tanzania where he is the Scientific Director of the Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit (MITU), the Unit established by the School in partnership with the Tanzanian National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR). Saidi is a member of several research and capacity development programmes in East Africa, including the Wellcome Trust funded THRiVE to Research Excellence consortium, and the Lake Victoria Consortium for Health Research that aims to improve the health of populations in fishing communities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Evaluation
Vaccine Centre

Teaching

Saidi is currently involved in teaching students undertaking distance learning courses in epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases and clinical trials.

Research

Saidi Kapiga has more than 30 years public health research experience, with particular interests on investigating the individual risk factors and underlying structural factors associated with HIV and other health problems in Africa, and evaluation of public health interventions in a range of populations. Currently, he is involved in a range of studies conducted in Mwanza city, including a clinical trial to assess the impact of a social-worker intervention on reducing post-hospital mortality among HIV patients; observational studies to determine the incidence and determinants of hypertension among HIV-infected and uninfected adults and adolescents and young people; and in a study to develop and evaluate an intervention programme to screen and treat or refer adolescents aged 10-19 years for a range of common conditions using routine health check-ups. Saidi is also a Co-Principal Investigator of the MRC-funded study to investigate substance use disorders among men in urban and rural communities in South Africa.

Research Area
Adolescent health
Alcohol
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Disease control
Global Health
Sexual and reproductive health
Substance use
Violence
Epidemiology
Medicine
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Non-communicable diseases
Infectious diseases
Cardiovascular diseases
Sexually transmitted infections
Country
South Africa
Tanzania
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

Linkage Case Management and Posthospitalization Outcomes in People With HIV: The Daraja Randomized Clinical Trial.
Peck, RN; Issarow, B; Kisigo, GA; Kabakama, S; Okello, E; Rutachunzibwa, T; Willkens, M; Deogratias, D; Hashim, R; GROSSKURTH, H; Fitzgerald, DW; Ayieko, P; Lee, MH; Murphy, SM; Metsch, LR; KAPIGA, S;
2024
JAMA
Comparing one dose of HPV vaccine in girls aged 9-14 years in Tanzania (DoRIS) with one dose in young women aged 15-20 years in Kenya (KEN SHE): an immunobridging analysis of randomised controlled trials.
BAISLEY, K; Kemp, TJ; Mugo, NR; Whitworth, H; Onono, MA; Njoroge, B; Indangasi, J; Bukusi, EA; Prabhu, PR; Mutani, P; Galloway, DA; Mwanzalime, D; KAPIGA, S; Lacey, CJ; HAYES, RJ; Changalucha, J; Pinto, LA; Barnabas, RV; Watson-Jones, D;
2024
The Lancet. Global health
Epidemiology of alcohol use and alcohol use disorders among people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in Northwest Tanzania: implications for ART adherence and case management.
AYIEKO, P; Kisanga, E; Mshana, G; Nkosi, S; HANSEN, CH; Parry, CD H; WEISS, HA; GROSSKURTH, H; HAYES, RJ; Morojele, NK; KAPIGA, S;
2024
AIDS care
Finding women in fishing communities around Lake Victoria: "Feasibility and acceptability of using phones and tracking devices".
Nanyonjo, G; Kwena, Z; Nakamanya, S; Okello, E; Oketch, B; BAHEMUKA, UM; Ssetaala, A; Okech, B; Price, MA; KAPIGA, S; Fast, P; Bukusi, E; SEELEY, J; LVCHR study team,;
2024
PLoS ONE
Prevalence of G6PD deficiency and submicroscopic malaria parasites carriage in malaria hotspot area in Northwest, Tanzania.
Manjurano, A; Lyimo, E; Kishamawe, C; Omolo, J; Mosha, J; Donald, M; Kazyoba, P; KAPIGA, S; Changalucha, J;
2023
Malaria journal
Hypertension among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.
Nsanya, MK; Abramson, R; Kisigo, GA; Hickner, A; Nyanza, EC; Peck, RN; KAPIGA, SH;
2023
Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine
Pathways to reduced physical intimate partner violence among women in north-western Tanzania: Evidence from two cluster randomised trials of the MAISHA intervention.
ABRAMSKY, T; Guadarrama, DS; KAPIGA, S; Mtolela, G; Madaha, F; Lees, S; Harvey, S;
2023
PLOS global public health
Men's Narratives of Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in Urban Mwanza, Northwestern Tanzania.
Mchome, Z; Mshana, G; Malibwa, D; Aloyce, D; Dwarumpudi, A; Peter, E; KAPIGA, S; Stöckl, H;
2023
Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment
Effect and cost-effectiveness of human-centred design-based approaches to increase adolescent uptake of modern contraceptives in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania: Population-based, quasi-experimental studies.
Krug, C; NEUMAN, M; Rosen, JE; Weinberger, M; Wallach, S; Lagaay, M; Punton, M; Prakash, A; Nsanya, MK; Ayieko, P; KAPIGA, S; Ajayi, YP; Crawford, EE; Tenaw, E; Mussa, M; Shrestha, SK; BOTTOMLEY, C; Hargreaves, JR; DOYLE, AM;
2023
PLOS global public health
MAISHA Study CRT01: Baseline and follow-up data
ABRAMSKY, T; HARVEY, S; LEES, S; KAPIGA, S; Mtolela, G; Madaha, F; Hanson, C; Hashim, R; Kapinga, I;
2023
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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