Miss Camille Wittesaele
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Epidemiology & Population Health
United Kingdom
Camille Wittesaele is an adolescent and child health researcher based at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her work has focused on conducting impact-driven maternal, adolescent and child health services research while gaining substantial programmatic and operational experience. Since 2014, Camille has worked with on design, development and implementation of several observational cohort studies with the distinct aim of informing the design and delivery of services for adolescents and their infant children. She has extensive fieldwork experience in rural and urban settings in three South African provinces. Camille’s PhD research examines child healthcare service access and engagement among children of adolescent mothers in South Africa.
Camille is a Co-Investigator for the HEY BABY study and a young researcher of the UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa’s Adolescents Hub.
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Camille's research interests include maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, child health records, well-child services, health services research, childhood vaccination and HIV.