Staff Profiles

Bsc Med-Sciencies, MBChB, MMed Public Health Medicine

A Public Health physician with interests in communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology and health economics, mainly health care financing and policy.

General Public Health principles and communication skills, community health principles,  clinical research, Global/International Health, medical literature , reproductive health ,Health Economics, financing and budgeting

Research areas cut across communicable and non-communicable epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, clinical audits and health economics research.

MMed dissertations supervised include communicable disease epidemiology (Malaria, HIV, TB) , non-communicable disease epidemiology (hypertension, cancers) and community health (orphan care)

Tlhakanelo, J.T., Tshikuka, J.G., Molefi, M., Magafu, M.G.M.D., Masupe, T. and Matchaba-Hove, R.B. (2015) HIV hospital admissions attributable to specific opportunistic infections and factors associated with them at a Botswana referral hospital. World journal of AIDS, 5, 175-181. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/wja.2015.53020

Tiny Masupe, John Thato Tlhakanelo, Mary Banyana Tiro et al.May Measurement Month 2018: an analysis of blood pressure screening results from Botswana. August 2020 .European Heart Journal Supplements 22(Supplement_H):H23-H25 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/suaa021

Siamisang,  K., Tlhakanelo,  J.T.  and Mhaladi,  B.B.  (2020) Emergency Department Waiting Times and Determinants  of  Prolonged  Length  of  Stay  in a Botswana Referral Hospital. Open Journal of Emergency Medicine, 8, 59-70. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojem.2020.83007