Chodziwadziwa Kabudula
Senior Researcher in Wearable Sensors
Chodziwadziwa (Cho) Kabudula, is a population health data scientist with expertise in record linkage of health and population data from disparate sources; developing, managing, maintaining and analysing complex temporal population and health research datasets and developing software tools to support field research activities. He has developed most of his professional expertise using data from the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) hosted by MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit in South Africa where he has worked since 2008 as well as other HDSS platforms in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cho’s research focusses on the application of demographic, statistical, computational and informatics techniques to investigate population-level morbidity, mortality and utilisation of health services, and their determinants. With the goal of advancing understanding of the causes and consequences of diseases, particularly in African populations, Cho is working on linkage of smartphone and wearable data with existing electronic healthcare databases and integration of smartphone and wearable measurements into epidemiological cohorts as well as developing new measures of health status from research grade wearables.
Recent publications
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Can verbal autopsies be used on a national scale? Key findings and lessons from South Africa's national cause-of-death validation study.
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Maqungo M. et al, (2024), Glob Health Action, 17
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Leadership, cohesion, and stress in primary care facilities and retention in chronic care in rural northeast South Africa before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study.
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Leslie HH. et al, (2024), J Glob Health, 14
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Effect of a cash transfer intervention on memory decline and dementia probability in older adults in rural South Africa.
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Rosenberg M. et al, (2024), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121
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Impact of the South African Child Support Grant on memory decline and dementia probability in rural and low-income mothers, 2014-2021.
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Beidelman ET. et al, (2024), Social science & medicine (1982), 358
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Effects of Pension Eligibility Expansion on Men's Cognitive Function: Findings from Rural South Africa.
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Jock J. et al, (2024), J Aging Soc Policy, 36, 809 - 828