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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. 

Affiliations

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

Research

Camille's research interests include maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, child health records, well-child services, health services research, childhood vaccination and HIV.

Research Area
Health services
Social and structural determinants of health
Health services research
Adolescent health
Reproductive health
Sexual and reproductive health
Child health
Health inequalities
Maternal health
Epidemiology
Mixed methods research
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted infections
Country
South Africa
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

WITTESAELE, C; Toska, E; Cluver, L; WEISS, HA; Collins, C; Amponsah-Dacosta, E; DOYLE, AM;
2024
Vaccine
Toska, E; Zhou, S; Laurenzi, CA; Saal, W; Rudgard, W; WITTESAELE, C; Langwenya, N; Jochim, J; Banougnin, BH; Gulaid, L; Armstrong, A; Sherman, G; Edun, O; Sherr, L; Cluver, L;
2024
Journal of the International AIDS Society
Cluver, L; Jochim, J; Mapukata, Y; WITTESAELE, C; Shenderovich, Y; Mafuya, S; Steventon Roberts, K; Banougnin, B; Sherr, L; Toska, E;
2023
Child: care, health and development
Steventon Roberts, KJ; Smith, C; Toska, E; Cluver, L; WITTESAELE, C; Langwenya, N; Shenderovich, Y; Saal, W; Jochim, J; Chen-Charles, J; Marlow, M; Sherr, L;
2023
Infant and Child Development
Toska, E; Saal, W; Chen Charles, J; WITTESAELE, C; Langwenya, N; Jochim, J; Steventon Roberts, KJ; Anquandah, J; Banougnin, BH; Laurenzi, C; Sherr, L; Cluver, L;
2022
PloS one
Steventon Roberts, KJ; Smith, C; Cluver, L; Toska, E; Jochim, J; WITTESAELE, C; Marlow, M; Sherr, L;
2022
PloS One
Sherr, L; Haag, K; Steventon Roberts, KJ; Cluver, LD; WITTESAELE, C; Saliwe, B; Tolmay, J; Langwenya, N; Jochim, J; Saal, W; Zhou, S; Marlow, M; Chen-Charles, JJ; Toska, E;
2022
BMJ Open
Steventon Roberts, K; Smith, C; Toska, E; Cluver, L; Haag, K; WITTESAELE, C; Langwenya, N; Jochim, J; Saal, W; Shenderovich, Y; Sherr, L;
2022
Psychology, health & medicine
Jochim, J; Meinck, F; Steventon Roberts, KJ; WITTESAELE, C; Langwenya, N; Toska, E; Cluver, L;
2022
Psychology, health & medicine
Jochim, J; Meinck, F; Toska, E; Roberts, K; WITTESAELE, C; Langwenya, N; Cluver, L;
2022
Global public health