
Nisha Jacob
@nishanne_jacob
Public Health Physician and Associate Professor @UCTHealthSci | Academic | Health advocate | Musician | Wife | Mother of Namzi
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06-08-2021 09:24:07
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Brilliant talk by Chris Beyrer at #CROI2025 day 2 on the current HIV response and challenges ahead. Specially loved the inspiring reference to our amazing Arch Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu Health Foundation IAS–USA Conference of Opportunistic Infections


Colleagues from UCT School of Public Health participated at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections #CROI2025 in San Francisco. The value of HIV research in saving lives was highlighted, amidst the devastating funding cuts facing research UCT Health Sciences UCT CIDER, School of Public Health, UCT



🎉Publication alert: As we face major funding cuts to health, this paper highlights the value of strengthening routine health information systems for health surveillance and moving away from costly parallel donor-dependent initiatives UCT Division of Public Health Medicine @uctsph bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Congratulations Nisha Jacob and colleagues UCT School of Public Health CIDER, School of Public Health, UCT Western Cape Gov

Read more about our #HealthInContext student project on HIV prevention through strengthening community-based services - an especially important initiative with the current HIV funding cuts. Well done Team Vanguard! athlonenews.co.za/news/2025-03-1… UCT School of Public Health Ursula Cooper-Hunter



Excellent Science and Heritage evening in beautiful Toledo led by Miguel Hernán on the controversial concept of statistical significance #IWHOD2025


Wonderful learning experience at #IWHOD2025 in beautiful Toledo. Thank you Lesley Park, PhD, MPH and Julia del Amo for your exceptional organisation.



Congratulations to all our students who graduated last week. From UCT Division of Public Health Medicine, Marcia Vermeulen received her Masters in Public Health, Vanessa Mudaly graduated with her Masters in Medicine and Nisha Jacob was awarded her PhD. Halala! UCT School of Public Health UCT Health Sciences UCT #UCTGrad2025


Super proud of our undergraduates presenting at #PHASA2025 🥳 Etandwa Guda presented undergraduate work done on the Groote Schuur Hospital Data Centre, supervised by Dr Shrikant Peters UCT School of Public Health UCT Health Sciences


Congratulations to final year medical students, Dean Joao, Amira Botha and team, supervised by Dr Maria Jose, who presented at #phasa2025 on HPV knowledge, beliefs and vaccination promotion by school staff in Cape Town. UCT School of Public Health UCT Health Sciences


Huge congrats to Ronald van den Berg on completing his MSc in BME with distinction and an outstanding 88% for his dissertation! Grateful to National Research Foundation of South Africa, @dsigovza & @merSETA_social for funding. Congrats to Jithan Koshy on our first co-supervised student! @UCTHealthFac UCT MedTech



Support our #HealthInContext undergrads tomorrow at noon, as they present their research findings on HPV Knowledge, beliefs and vaccination promotion in Mitchell's Plain UCT School of Public Health UCT Health Sciences In-person and MS Teams Meeting ID: 327 113 041 007 9 Passcode: aH24j3SJ


Congratulations to Team Langa UCT Health Sciences UCT School of Public Health on a fantastic #HealthInContext health promotion project Nisha Jacob vukaninews.co.za/news/2025-06-2…

Looking forward to this important discussion UCT Division of Public Health Medicine