Nisha Jacob
@nishanne_jacob
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Public Health Physician and Associate Professor @UCTHealthSci | Academic | Health advocate | Musician | Wife | Mother of Namzi
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined August 2021
We can all be advocates for health #VaccinesSaveLives #GetVaxxed.
Meet the talented Namitha 'Namzi' Koshy. She's in grade 5 and makes cartoons about COVID-19 and the different variants to help kids understand how vaccines work. #GetVaxxed
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RT @uctphm: Congratulations to Team Langa @UCTHealthSci @UCT_SPH on a fantastic #HealthInContext health promotion project @nishanne_jacob….
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Discover how UCT students are empowering Langa caregivers with vital knowledge on cervical cancer and tracheostomy care, enhancing community health awareness.
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RT @uctphm: Support our #HealthInContext undergrads tomorrow at noon, as they present their research findings on HPV Knowledge, beliefs and….
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RT @SouthAfricanASP: The social determinants of misinformation | The BMJ
bmj.com
We need to understand more about how susceptibility to misinformation is socially patterned so that it doesn’t deepen health inequalities, say Simon Williams and Sander van der Linden The effective...
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May his soul and the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of Christ, rest in peace 🙏🏾 😞.
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
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RT @SudeshSivarasu: Huge congrats to Ronald van den Berg on completing his MSc in BME with distinction and an outstanding 88% for his disse….
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RT @uctphm: Congratulations to final year medical students, Dean Joao, Amira Botha and team, supervised by Dr Maria Jose, who presented at….
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RT @uctphm: Super proud of our undergraduates presenting at #PHASA2025 🥳 Etandwa Guda presented undergraduate work done on the Groote Schuu….
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It's not an April Fool's Joke! It really is Graduation Day @UCTHealthSci @UCT_news. Thank you to everyone who supported me on this journey 🎊🙏🏾❤️ #PhDone
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Wonderful learning experience at #IWHOD2025 in beautiful Toledo. Thank you @drlesleypark and Julia del Amo for your exceptional organisation.
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Excellent Science and Heritage evening in beautiful Toledo led by @_MiguelHernan on the controversial concept of statistical significance #IWHOD2025
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Brilliant key note address at #IWHOD2025 by Sir Michael Marmot on inequities in health. Starstruck after meeting this giant in public health 🤩
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#IWHOD2025 started today in charming Toledo, recognising the challenges that lie ahead for the HIV research
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RT @uctphm: Read more about our #HealthInContext student project on HIV prevention through strengthening community-based services - an espe….
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Fourth-year students visited Vanguard Community Heath Centre in Bonteheuwel to implement a health-promoting project.
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🎉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 @uctphm @uctsph
bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com
Background Monitoring progress of HIV programmes is reliant on robust surveillance. The WHO Consolidated guidelines on person-centred HIV strategic information recommend moving towards using routine...
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Congratulations to @uctphm colleagues, A/Prof. @nishanne_jacob who presented her recent work on HIV vertical transmission prevention and Dr Marcia Vermeulen who presented on patient and provider perspectives for TPT at #CROI2025 in San Francisco @UCT_SPH @UCTHealthSci
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Brilliant talk by @ChrisBeyrer at #CROI2025 day 2 on the current HIV response and challenges ahead. Specially loved the inspiring reference to our amazing Arch Desmond Tutu @DTHF_SA @IAS_USA @CROI_Official
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