Erick Wekesa Bunyasi is an expert in Pulmonology at University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Erick Wekesa Bunyasi has authored 12 publications, the most recent in 2022. SLR score: 42 (community average: 125). How the SLR is computed.

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Erick Wekesa Bunyasi University of the Witwatersrand South Africa
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Pulmonology

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Publications and Clinical Studies

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Short Biography

Dr. Erick is a Medical Doctor with a PhD in Medicine with 15 years of public health leadership, research and project management experience across Eastern and Southern Africa. This includes program leadership, high-level stakeholder engagement, administration and research experience with >15 peer-reviewed scientific publications. His experience includes providing technical leadership to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), leading research at the Wellcome Trust Research Programme, leading Public Health Emergency Operations at the Kenya Ministry of Health, serving as Principal Investigator at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and leading research, stakeholder engagement and supporting control of TB/HIV in South Africa while working at the University of Cape Town.

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Career arc: 2021 - 2026

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SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics & Decision Science – PRICELESS SA, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Number : 12

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Citations: 284 1st author: 8 Last author: 0 Unique author: 0


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5 most recent indexed articles

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Title Journal Year Citations
Molecular Detection of Airborne in South African High Schools.
PMID 34752730 — research design, respiratory tract diseases, critical care, schools, public health, air, sputum, adolescent, tuberculosis
Am J Respir Crit Care Med202218
Performance of diagnostic and predictive host blood transcriptomic signatures for Tuberculosis disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
PMID 32822359 — blood, triage, tuberculosis, diagnosis, tuberculosis disease
PLoS One202060
Regional changes in tuberculosis disease burden among adolescents in South Africa (2005-2015).
PMID 32609738 — disease notification, adolescent, tuberculosis, cost of illness, tuberculosis disease
PLoS One20208
Performance of host blood transcriptomic signatures for diagnosing and predicting progression to tuberculosis disease in HIV-negative adults and adolescents: a systematic review protocol.
PMID 31122978 — blood, rna, messenger, adolescent, hiv, tuberculosis, diagnosis, sensitivity and specificity, tuberculosis disease
BMJ Open20197
Temporal trends in the prevalence of infection in South African adolescents.
PMID 31097065 — adolescent, infections, tuberculosis, schools, lung diseases, prevalence, id
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis201911

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