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Biography

CURRENT POSITIONS
Director, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)
Research Professor and Head, Division of Health and Population , School of Public, Health University of the Witwatersrand

QUALIFICATIONS
BSc, MBBCh, MMed (Rand), MPH (Harvard), MA (Oxon), PhD (Umeå)

PERSONAL STATEMENT
As Research Professor in the School of Public Health, Wits University, Steve Tollman directs the Medical Research Council / Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt). While trained in African and US / UK institutions, Steve’s professional life is based in South Africa with extensive efforts building advanced research capability in sub-Saharan African settings.

In the early 1990s, he led establishment of the Agincourt Field Research Centre based on long-term health and socio-demographic surveillance. This provides a longitudinal platform for the SAMRC’s only research group dedicated to rural health and development and the rapid transitions underway. Extensive observational work is complemented by intervention-evaluations addressing key periods along the life course. The empirically-derived mortality and cause-of-death series informs work on chronic conditions and is among the richest on the continent. This, and related surveillance data, offer fresh insight into the complex demographic, epidemiological and social transitions underway.

Steve’s work contributed to the founding of the INDEPTH Network which he served as Board Chair then Principal Scientist. He serves on African, US and UK review panels and is currently chairing 5-year reviews of SAMRC intramural research units. He is an author of some 250 peer-reviewed publications, and in 2018 was honoured by the National Science and Technology Forum.

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Employment (13)

University of the Witwatersrand: Division of Health and Population School of Public Health, ZA

2014 to present | Research Professor and Head
Employment
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MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt): Mpumalanga Province, ZA

2004 to present | Director
Employment
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Stephen Tollman

Indepth Network: Accra, GH

2012 to 2018 | Principal Scientist
Employment
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Stephen Tollman

Umea Universitet: Centre for Global Health Research, Epidemiology and Global Health, SE

2009 to 2015 | Guest Professor
Employment
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University of the Witwatersrand: Division of Health and Population School of Public Health, ZA

2000 to 2014 | Associate Professor and Head,
Employment
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University of the Witwatersrand: Demography and Population Studies Programme Executive, ZA

2004 to 2012 | Convenor
Employment
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University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

1994 to 1999 | Senior Lecturer (special list from 1997)
Employment
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University of the Witwatersrand: Health Systems Development Unit (HSDU), ZA

1994 to 1996 | Senior Research Officer
Employment
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University of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health: Health Systems Development Unit (HSDU), ZA

1990 to 1996 | Director
Employment
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The Commission on Health Research for Development: New York, US

1988 to 1990 | Secretariat member
Employment
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Harvard School of Public Health : Population Sciences and International Health , US

1988 to 1990 | Post-doctoral Fellow
Employment
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Rahima Moosa Mother and Child (formerly Coronation) Hospital (obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics): Johannesburg, ZA

1986 to 1986 | Senior House Officer
Employment
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Rahima Moosa Mother and Child (formerly Coronation) Hospital, (surgery, internal medicine): Johannesburg, ZA

1985 to 1985 | Intern
Employment
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Education and qualifications (6)

Umea Universitet: Umea, SE

2008 | PhD (Epidemiology and Global Health)
Qualification
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Stephen Tollman

University of the Witwatersrand : Johannesburg, ZA

1999 | MMed (Public Health Medicine)
Qualification
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Stephen Tollman

Harvard School of Public Health: MA, MA, US

1988 | MPH (Health Services Administration)
Qualification
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Stephen Tollman

University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

1984 | MBBCh
Qualification
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Stephen Tollman

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

1982 | BA (Hons) / MA (Philosophy, Politics, Economics)
Qualification
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University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

1979 | BSc (Anatomy, Physiology)
Qualification
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Professional activities (102)

UK MRC: Global Multimorbidity Funding Committee (GACD), London, GB

2020 to present | Panel member
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases: International Expert Advisory Group, GB

2020 to present | Panel member
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

South African Medical Research Council : Cape Town, ZA

2018 to present | Chair, 5-year (quinquennial) reviews of SA MRC intramural research units
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Oxford University and African Health Research Institute: Kwa Zulu Natal, ZA

2017 to present | Chair, Trial Steering Committee: Insika Yomama
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

UK MRC : Fellowships Selection Panel, Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF), GB

2015 to present | Chair
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

DataFirst: University of Cape Town, ZA

2013 to present | Board Member
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies: Cambridge, MA, US

2011 to present | Faculty Member
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

UK MRC/DfID : African Research Leader scheme , GB

2010 to present | Panelist
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Bushbuckridge Health and Wellness Trust : A private-public partnership comprising Anglo American, Virgin Unite, Mpumalanga Provincial Health Department and Wits University , ZA

2009 to present | Trustee
Service
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Stephen Tollman

INDEPTH : Satellite Secretariat , ZA

2008 to present | Head, based in the Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, Wits University
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Wellcome Trust: London, GB

2006 to present | Review of research applications
Service
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Stephen Tollman

INDEPTH: Program on Adult Health and Aging , GH

2005 to present | Principal Investigator
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

University of Colorado, Boulder: Population Aging Center, US

2001 to present | Research Associate
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Executive Committee : School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, ZA

2000 to present | Member
Service
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Oxford, Warwick and UCL Universities, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; Harvard School of Public Health, University of Washington and Brown University, USA; UK MRC Gambia Unit: Multiple countries, ZA

2010 to 2020 | Senior promotion/appointment reviews
Service
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Stephen Tollman

UKMRC/Uganda Virus Research Institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) : London, GB

2019 | Acting Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

National Research Foundation: Cape Town, ZA

2018 | South32 award for outstanding contribution to Science, Engineering and Technology, and Innovation (Management and related activities)
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

Academy of Medical Sciences: London, London, GB

2016 to 2018 | Panelist, Addressing the global challenge of multimorbidity
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: Commission on Migration and Health, GB

2016 to 2018 | Member
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Advisory Board: Centre for Rural Health, ZA

2009 to 2018 | Chair
Service
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Stephen Tollman

NIH / Global Alliance for Chronic Disease (GACD): Implementation Science for the Prevention and Treatment of Mental and/or Substance Use Disorders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Cape Town, ZA

2017-09 to 2017-09 | Editorial Board joint reviews
Service
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Stephen Tollman

NIH Centre for Scientific Review: Cape Town, ZA

2017 | GACD Peer Review Meeting
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Strategic planning workshop, Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results: Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA): Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results: Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA), ZA

2017 to 2017 | Facilitator
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Quinquennial Review of Wits Institute for Malaria (2013-17): Johannesburg, ZA

2017 to 2017 | Assessment Committee
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Public Health Foundation of India - UK Consortium Research Capacity Building Programme : External Advisory Committee, Public Health Foundation of India - UK Consortium Research Capacity Building Programme , GB

2013 to 2017 | Chair
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries 3rd ed. : Advisory Committee to Editors: Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries 3rd ed. , IN

2013 to 2017
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

UK MRC : Global Health Strategy Group , GB

2010 to 2017 | Panelist
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Peking University China Center for Health Development Studies: Peking, CN

2015 to 2016 | Board member
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

SA/UK MRC & GSK Review Panel on Non-Communicable Diseases in South Africa : Johannesburg, ZA

2014 to 2015 | Chair
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Wellcome Trust: Public Health and Tropical Medicine Interview Committee, GB

2012 to 2015 | Chair
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Strategic planning meeting: The Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI), ZA

2014 to 2014 | Facilitator
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Indepth Network: Prize for Extraordinary Research in Population and Health , GH

2013 | Team award for article: Clark SJ, Kahn K, Houle B, Arteche A, Collinson MA, Tollman SM, Stein A. Young Children's Risk of Dying Before and After Their Mothers' Death: A Rural Southern African Population-Based Surveillance Study. PLoS Med 2013; 10(3): e1001409
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

Nominations Committee: MRC national awards, ZA

2012 to 2013 | Member
Service
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Stephen Tollman

National Academy of Sciences: The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in sub-Saharan Africa Committee on Population, US

2010 to 2013 | Panel Member
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Wellcome Trust Expert Group ‘Population and Public Health Research 1990 to-date’: London, GB

2012-06 to 2012-06 | Wellcome Trust Expert Group ‘Population and Public Health Research 1990 to-date’ London, June 2012
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Review Committee: Institute for Human Evolution , ZA

2012 to 2012 | Member, (Chair, A Crouch)
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Centres for Global Health Research : London, GB

2012 to 2012 | Panel chair
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Wellcome Trust: Specialist committee awarding highly competitive fellowships to early and mid-career researchers from low and middle-income countries , GB

2009 to 2012 | Committee member
Invited position
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Indepth Network : Accra, GH

2011 | Award for outstanding leadership / support
Distinction
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Faculty of Health Sciences: University of the Witwatersrand, ZA

2009 to 2011 | Graduate Studies Committee
Service
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Stephen Tollman

University of the Witwatersrand: Vice Chancellor’s Award for Academic Citizenship, ZA

2010 | Team award to MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

Reference Group: 21st Century Institutes , US

2010 to 2010 | Member
Service
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Stephen Tollman

National Research Foundation rating : Pretoria, ZA

2010 to 2010 | Reviewer
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Indepth Network: Prize for Extraordinary Research in Population and Health , GH

2009 | Team award for article: Tollman SM, Kahn K, Sartorius B, Collinson MA, Clark SJ, Garenne ML. Implications of mortality transition for primary health care in rural South Africa: a population-based surveillance study. The Lancet 2008; 372:893-901
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

Doris Duke Foundation : African Health Systems Initiative , US

2008 to 2009 | Review panel
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Indepth Network: Accra, GH

2008 | Award for outstanding leadership / support
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

WHO: Integrating cardiovascular disease management in PHC systems, CH

2006 to 2006 | Co-Chair
Service
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Stephen Tollman

National Academy of Sciences: Policy Research and Data Needs to Meet the Challenge of Aging in Africa Committee on Population, US

2004 to 2006 | Panelist
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

INDEPTH Network : Board of Trustees, GH

2002 to 2006 | Elected first Chair
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Undergraduate Committee: School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, ZA

2000 to 2006 | Chair
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Steering Committee, Forced Migration Studies Program : University of the Witwatersrand, ZA

2000 to 2006 | Chair (Program developed as collaboration between Graduate School for Social Sciences and Humanities, and School of Public Health; forerunner of African Centre for Migration and Society, School of Social Sciences)
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare: Stockholm, SE

2005 | Guest researcher award
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

Umeå University: Epidemiology & Public Health Sciences, SE

2005 to 2005 | Guest Researcher
Invited position
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National Research Foundation rating : Pretoria, ZA

2005 to 2005 | Reviewer of candidates
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Faculty of Health Sciences: Faculty Board, Undergraduate Committee, Education Committee, Advisory Committee on Computing : University of the Witwatersrand, ZA

2000 to 2005 | Committee memberships (most years)
Service
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‘WBCA’ research and academic partnership between Wits, Brown and Colorado Universities USA and the African Population & Health Research Centre, Nairobi : Johannesburg, Nairobi, Providence, ZA

2004 to 2004 | Initiated, with M Pitt (Brown), J Menken (Colorado) and A Ezeh (APHRC))
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Board of Management, Division of Community Paediatrics Sciences : University of the Witwatersrand, ZA

2002 to 2004 | Committee member, 1994-96, 1999
Service
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Board of Management, Division of Community Paediatrics: University of the Witwatersranc, ZA

2002 to 2004 | Member
Service
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Essential National Health Research Committee : Pretoria, ZA

2000 to 2004 | Appointed by Minister of Health
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Stephen Tollman

Institute of Urban Primary Health Care: Alexandra , ZA

1999 to 2004 | 1999 – 2004 Board Chair (member 1993-96)
Service
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London, GB

1996 to 2003 | Honorary Senior Lecturer
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Indepth Network: Coordinating Committee, GH

1998 to 2002 | Deputy Chair
Invited position
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Stephen Tollman

Re-invigorate community-oriented primary care (COPC) : Washingtom DC, US

2001 to 2001 | International Steering Group
Service
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University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

2000 | Vice Chancellor’s Team Teaching Award (with H Saloojee)
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

International workshop on Social Medicine and Reform of the Health System in South Africa 1940-2000: University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, ZA

2000 to 2000 | Co-organiser
Service
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Stephen Tollman

First INDEPTH Scientific & General Meeting: Broederstroom, ZA

2000 to 2000 | Convenor with K Kahn
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Bangkok 2000 Conference on Health Research for Development WHO-COHRED : World Bank, DC, GB

2000 to 2000 | Facilitation group
Service
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MRC Evaluation Panel: Health and Development Research Thrust: Health and Development Research Thrust, ZA

1996 to 2000 | Member
Service
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MRC : Health and Development Research Thrust, ZA

1996 to 2000 | Evaluation Panel
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo: University of Limpopo , ZA

1995 to 2000 | Scientific and technical support to establish the Dikgale research centre (now a full member of INDEPTH & Node of SAPRIN)
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Think-tank on the future of Essential National Health Research (ENHR): Convened by COHRED, Geneva, CH

1999 to 1999 | Member
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Technical meeting of parliamentary legislators and resource persons to develop an ‘equity gauge’ for assessing progress in implementing health reforms in SA : Pretoria, ZA

1998 to 1998 | Chair/facilitator
Service
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Stephen Tollman

WHO Study on ‘Essential Public Health Functions’: Geneva, CH

1997 to 1998 | Core Monitoring Group
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Task group on Priority Setting for Health Research: Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), Geneva, CH

1997 to 1997 | Participant
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Department of Health: Traveling seminar to SE Asia on ‘Attainability and affordability of equity in health care provision’ (with WC Hsiao, Harvard School of Public Health and M Sinclair, Kaiser Family Foundation, USA), ZA

1997 to 1997 | Scientific convenor with M Sinclair, Kaiser Family Foundation, USA)
Service
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Centre for Science Development : Scholarship and grants program, ZA

1996 to 1997 | Referee
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Wellcome Trust : London, GB

1996 | Travelling Research Fellowship
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust: Parktown, ZA

1996 | Grant for sabbatical support and study abroad
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

British Council : London, GB

1996 | Helen Suzman Leadership / Chevening Award
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: NY, US

1996 | Travel Award
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

Team residency to examine mechanisms for strengthening longitudinal community-based health research: Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, IT

1996 to 1996 | Participant/discussant
Service
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Stephen Tollman

National Department of Health: District Health Systems, ZA

1994 to 1996 | Technical advisor and convenor of numerous workshops and seminars for senior provincial management
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Dept of Social Medicine : Hebrew University-Hadassah, School of Public Health , ZA

1995 to 1995 | Hosted to SA medical schools and provincial health departments - to foster ties with leading proponents of community-oriented primary care (COPC)
Service
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Stephen Tollman

SA delegation to 2nd International Conference on ENHR : Geneva, CH

1994 to 1994 | Convenor
Service
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Stephen Tollman

MRC Essential Health Research Group : Strategic planning meeting, ZA

1994 to 1994 | Facilitator
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Ministerial Advisory Committee on Essential National Health Research (ENHR): National Department of Health, ZA

1994 to 1994 | Member
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Harvard School of Public Health and Kaiser Family Foundation : Strategic development workshop for provincial/national health ministers and civil servants. Harvard School of Public Health and Kaiser Family Foundation , ZA

1994 to 1994 | Evaluator
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Interim Steering Committee: Transvaal (then Thusano) School of Public Health, ZA

1993 to 1994 | Member
Service
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Stephen Tollman

WHO Study Group on: Improving the performance of health centres in district health systems: Geneva, CH

1993 to 1993 | Temporary Advisor
Service
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Stephen Tollman

National workshop on the role of the media in health and development in SA : Johannesburg, ZA

1993 to 1993 | Convenor with M Sinclair, Kaiser Family Foundation, USA)
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Meeting of member islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean MRC: convened to establish health research priorities in the Caribbean, JE

1993 to 1993 | Facilitatorwith Y Nuyens, COHRED
Service
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Stephen Tollman

MRC Task-group on health status, health services, research and training in SA: Johannesburg, ZA

1991 to 1992 | Advisor
Service
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The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust: Parktown, ZA

1987 | Grant for sabbatical support and study abroad
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

Working conditions and educational experience of interns: Johannesburg teaching hospitals, ZA

1985 to 1986 | Coordinater of studies with R Touyz, A Kelly, FJ Milne
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Anti-apartheid and social justice : Community groups, ZA

1985 to 1986 | Secretary, Committee for the Rejection of Apartheid in Health Association of health and community organisations opposing extension of racial segregation in Transvaal hospitals, Secretary, Committee on Domestic Workers, Coronation Hospital, National Medical and Dental Association’s (NAMDA) Doctors’ Panel providing medical, psychological and legal support for political detainees
Service
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University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

1984 | Gilbert Cottrill Prize for distinguished service on the Medical Students Council and academic achievement
Distinction
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Social justice as a student: Johannesburg, ZA

1982 to 1984 | Contributed to a Memorandum on the Health Care of Detainees, Submission by Detainees’ Parents Support Committee (DPSC) to the Medical Association of South Africa’s Committee of Enquiry into the Medical Care of Prisoners and Detainees Contributed to a Protocol for the Examination of Prisoners and Detainees adopted by the Wits Medical Faculty and submitted to the Medical Association of South Africa
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Balliol College: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

1980 | Rhodes Scholarship (South Africa-at-large)
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

1979 | Graham Wilkinson Medal for the 3rd year student who has excelled academically and made an outstanding contribution to the extra-curricular activities of the University
Distinction
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Stephen Tollman

Medical Students Council: University of the Witwatersrand, ZA

1979 to 1979 | President
Service
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Stephen Tollman

Students’ Representative Council: University of the Witwatersrand, ZA

1978 to 1978 | Member
Service
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Stephen Tollman

University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

1977 | Sonia Walker Prize for the student who has completed Physiology and Biochemistry I and is deemed by students and staff to be the most outstanding in extra-curricular activities
Distinction
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Funding (70)

HDSS-based Mortality Surveillance in Africa and South Asia

2021 to 2023 | Grant
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (Seattle, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Complex intervention to optimise adolescent BMI pre-conception to address the double burden of malnutrition: A RCT in rural and urban South Africa

2020 to 2025 | Grant
UK Medical Research Council (Swindon and London, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Impact of COVID-19 in a rural African setting to develop appropriate community-based interventions

2020 to 2021 | Grant
GCRF/Scottish Funding Council-COVID-19 Urgency Fund (Edinburgh, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

SARS-CoV-2 community burden and transmission in two South African communities (PHIRST-C)

2020 to 2021 | Grant
US-CDC / SA National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Md., US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Self-management approaches for individuals with multiple chronic health conditions in rural South Africa

2020 to 2021 | Grant
UKRI MRC (London, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN)

2019 to 2022 | Grant
Dept. of Science and Innovation / SA Medical Research Council (Cape Town, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Construction of Data and Analytics Complex at the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Research Centre

2019 to 2021 | Grant
Wolfson Foundation (London, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Digital delivery of Behavioral Activation to overcome depression and facilitate social and economic transitions of adolescents in South Africa (DOBAT).

2019 to 2021 | Grant
UKMRC/SAMRC/ESRC Newton Fund (London, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

The influence of Executive Function on Mental Health in vulnerable adolescents: a multi-site low and middle income country approach

2018-03-01 to 2019-05-30 | Grant
Medical Research Council (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7746411
GRANT_NUMBER: MC_PC_MR/R019606/1
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Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Cognitive function, Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders in the HAALSI Cohort.

2018 to 2023 | Grant
NIH (Washington DC, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

1RO1AG054066-01A1
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Stephen Tollman

Endocrine and metabolic diseases in rural South Africa – establishing burden and improving detection

2018 to 2022 | Grant
Fogarty International Centre, NIH (Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

5K43TW010698-04
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Stephen Tollman

Feasibility and pilot study of a complex community intervention to improve rural adolescent health

2017-04-30 to 2019-04-29 | Grant
Medical Research Council (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.6944875
GRANT_NUMBER: MR/P021174/1
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Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research (VAPAR): expanding the knowledge base through partnerships for action on health equity

2017-03-31 to 2022-03-30 | Grant
Medical Research Council (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.6945806
GRANT_NUMBER: MR/P014844/1
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Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

BUilding Knowledge and a foundation for HeALthy lIfe trajectories: BUKHALI Trial.

2017-02-01 to 2022-01-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7646212
GRANT_NUMBER:

d8d245825be58f8895633de84b698fda
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Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Understanding non-communicable diseases (NCD) and the role of infection in Africa: building a partnership to generate big data

2017-02-01 to 2019-04-29 | Grant
Medical Research Council (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.6621400
GRANT_NUMBER: MR/P023851/1
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Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

AWI-Gen Phase 2: Genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic disease in Africans

2017 to 2022 | Grant
National Institutes of Health, NHGRI (Md., Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2U54HG006938-06

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Stephen Tollman

Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies of an INDEPTH Community

2017 to 2022 | Grant
National Institute for Ageing, National Institutes for Health (Bethesda, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Feasibility and pilot study of a complex community intervention to reduce the variance in body mass index in rural adolescents, and thus future and intergenerational risk for Type 2 diabetes

2017 to 2019 | Grant
UKMRC, DfID, Wellcome Trust Joint Clinical Trials Scheme (London, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

SA Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN)

2017 to 2019 | Grant
Dept. of Science and Technology/SAMRC (Cape Town, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Mass Spectrometry Unit as a biomedical resource

2016-09-01 to 2021-08-31 | Grant
Wellcome Trust (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.6666183
GRANT_NUMBER:

202940/Z/16/A
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Migration, Urbanization and Health in a Transitional Setting.

2016 to 2021 | Grant
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Md., Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

1R01HD083374-01A1
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Prevalence, characterization and response to chronic kidney disease in South Africa.

2016 to 2019 | Grant
SA and UK MRC with GSK (Cape Town and London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

#NCD CKD 074
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research (VA-PAR): Developing a people-centred health systems research methodology

2015-05-31 to 2016-11-30 | Grant
Medical Research Council (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.4293918
GRANT_NUMBER: MR/N005597/1
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Innovations in HIV testing to enhance care for young women and their partners

2015 to 2018 | Grant
National Institutes of Health (Md., Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

R01HD083033
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

An innovative, language controlled, tablet-based cognitive test: harmonizing dementia screening across high and low literacy countries

2015 to 2017 | Grant
National Institute on Aging (Md., Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

1RO1AG051144-01
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Preventing cardiometabolic diseases in Africa: life-course and multi-sector approaches.

2014-04-01 to 2016-03-31 | Grant
Wellcome Trust (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3637932
GRANT_NUMBER:

085477/B/08/Z
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Phased development of advanced rural research infrastructure: Improving health & wellbeing of rural populations

2014 to 2018 | Grant
Beare Foundation (Durban, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

A life course approach to preventing cardiometabolic disease and enhancing wellbeing in a rapidly transitioning African setting

2014 to 2017 | Grant
Wellcome Trust, UK Strategic Award (London, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic disease in Africans.

2014 to 2017 | Grant
National Institutes of Health (Md., Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

3U54HG006938-03S1

Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Demography and Population Studies in the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

2014 to 2015 | Grant
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (CA, CA, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies of an INDEPTH Community

2013-09-15 to 2022-05-31 | Grant
National Institute on Aging (Baltimore, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.2434823
GRANT_NUMBER: P01AG041710
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Research partnership to assess the burden and aetiology of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

2013-06-29 to 2019-06-29 | Grant
Medical Research Council (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.2776775
GRANT_NUMBER: MR/K013491/1
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Treating hypertension in rural South Africa: Comparative effectiveness of two different patient outreach models.

2013-04-21 to 2017-03-21 | Grant
Medical Research Council (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.2781078
GRANT_NUMBER: MR/J016020/1
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Programme for the Economic Evaluation of Maternal and Child Health Interventions (PEECHi)

2013 to 2016 | Grant
MRC / Department of Health (Cape Town, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Informing global efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of low and middle-income populations: The INDEPTH Network of Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems.

2012-04-01 to 2017-06-30 | Grant
Wellcome Trust (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3643380
GRANT_NUMBER:

097318/C/11/Z
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic disease in Africans

2012 to 2017 | Grant
National Human Genome Research Institute (Md., Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

1U54HG006938-01
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Economic and health impacts of legislative and fiscal policies to improve nutrition in South Africans

2012 to 2014 | Grant
International Development Research Centre (ON, ON, CA)
GRANT_NUMBER:

106882-001
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Capacity strengthening component of strategic proposal: Informing global efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of low and middle-income populations: The INDEPTH Network of Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems

2012 to 2013 | Grant
Sida - GLOBFORSK (Umea, SE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Demography and Population Studies in the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

2011 to 2013 | Grant
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (CA, CA, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Extension and refurbishment of Agincourt field offices

2010 to 2012 | Grant
Beare Foundation (Durban, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

To support evaluation of ART rollout in Agincourt sub-district, Bushbuckridge

2010 to 2012 | Grant
Anglo American Chairman’s Fund (Johannesburg, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Effects of cash transfer and community mobilization in young South African women. Grant

2009 to 2014 | Grant
Prevention Trials Network / NIMH, NICHD: (Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

1R01MH0871 18-01
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

PRICELESS-SA, project of Disease Control Priorities Network

2009 to 2012 | Grant
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, U Washington/Gates Foundation (Washington, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Health, population and social transitions in rural Southern Africa: Elucidating pathways and testing interventions.

2008-10-01 to 2013-09-30 | Grant
Wellcome Trust (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3642975
GRANT_NUMBER:

085477/Z/08/Z
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Annual operating and capital funds for MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit: Research into health, population and social transitions in Agincourt, SA

2008 to 2024 | Grant
Medical Research Council (Cape Town, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Building an interdisciplinary demography and population studies programme at Wits University, South Africa

2008 to 2010 | Grant
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Md., US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Global Research Training in Population Health.

2007 to 2013 | Grant
Fogarty International Center (Md., Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

1 D43 TW007694-01
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Partnership for Social Science Research in South Africa’s Era of ART rollout

2007 to 2013 | Grant
National Institute on Aging (Md., Md., US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

5R24AG032112-03
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Social and environmental factors influencing growth & development in children & adolescents

2007 to 2012 | Grant
National Research Foundation (Cape Town, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Evaluation of ART rollout in Agincourt sub-district, Bushbuckridge

2007 to 2008 | Grant
Anglo American Chairman’s Fund (Johannesburg, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Building an interdisciplinary demography and population studies program in the University of the Witwatersrand

2006 to 2007 | Grant
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (CA, CA, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

INDEPTH - WHO SAGE Study on Global Aging & Adult Health

2005 to 2006 | Grant
National Institute on Aging, NIH, USA / World Health Organization: (Md., US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Stimulating research on migration and urbanisation in South and Southern Africa.

2004 to 2007 | Grant
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (NY, NY, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Strengthening and extending an interdisciplinary demography and population studies program in the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

2004 to 2007 | Grant
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (NY, NY, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Understanding how poor households cope with the cost burdens of ill-health and the impact on household livelihoods.

2003-11-15 to 2007-06-14 | Grant
Wellcome Trust (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3627186
GRANT_NUMBER:

069451/Z/02/Z
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Expert workshop to present findings from the Southern Africa Stroke Prevention Initiative Study (SASPI) to be held in Johannesburg.

2003-09-01 to 2003-09-30 | Grant
Wellcome Trust (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3626128
GRANT_NUMBER:

072595/Z/03/Z
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Investigating and responding to health, population and social transitions in rural Southern Africa

2003 to 2008 | Grant
Wellcome Trust (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

069683/Z/02/Z
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman
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Strengthening and stabilising demographic and health surveillance in Agincourt foundation for a health and population research programme in South Africa's rural north-east (extended support)

2002-01-01 to 2002-10-31 | Grant
Wellcome Trust (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3633037
GRANT_NUMBER:

058893/Z/99/A
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Support collaboration between Epidemiology and Public Health, Umeå University and Health & Population Division, Wits School of Public Health

2002 to 2006 | Grant
National Research Foundation, SA and Swedish International Development 2002 – 06 ZAR 460, 000 National Research Foundation, SA and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) (Johannesburg, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Southern Africa stroke prevention initiative: the pilot stage.

2001-11-01 to 2004-06-30 | Grant
Wellcome Trust (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3630803
GRANT_NUMBER:

064762/Z/01/Z
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman via DimensionsWizard

Operating support for programme of collaborative research with Population Aging Centre, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

2001 to 2006 | Grant
National Institute on Aging, NIH, USA / University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

1R24AG032112-01
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

To introduce a regional developmental ‘node’ in the field Migration and Urbanisation at Wits University

2001 to 2004 | Grant
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (NY, NY, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

To strengthen demography and population studies teaching and research in the University of the Witwatersrand

2001 to 2004 | Grant
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (NY, NY, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

To support collaboration between French Centre for Population and Development (CEPED), Agincourt Program, Wits and MRC SA

2001 to 2003 | Grant
Foundation for Research Development, SA and French Ministry of National Education, Research and Technology: (Johannesburg, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

General support - annual grant

1998 to 2008 | Grant
Wits University Research Committee (Johannesburg, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Project and core support

1998 to 2001 | Grant
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (NY, NY, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

For ongoing circulatory disease research

1998 to 1999 | Grant
Medical Research Council (Cape Town, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

Agincourt support to Dikgale field research site, University of Limpopo and to strengthen international collaborations

1997 to 1999 | Grant
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (NY, NY, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

General support to Agincourt Program, Wits

1997 to 1999 | Grant
Anglo Amercan Chairman's Fund (Johannesburg, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman

MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit financing

1990 to 1996 | Grant
Dept. of Health South Africa, European Union and Kagiso Trust, Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, USA, Trust for Health Systems Planning and Development, SA (Johannesburg, ZA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Stephen Tollman
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