Fellows

Juliet Katoba

DELTAS Africa I Fellowship Recipient


University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Durban, South Africa

Project

Accessibility of point-of-care diagnostics for prevention of vertical disease transmission in rural primary health care clinics in Zambia

Collaboration Interests
  • Bioethics
  • Evidence-synthesis
  • HIV and infectious diseases
  • Implementation research
  • Mixed methods research
  • Point of care evaluations/implementations

Juliet Katoba is a public health researcher with expertise in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches, particularly in implementation research. Her work focuses on evaluating processes and outcomes in health programmes related to HIV, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases, as well as broader global health issues including mental health and non-communicable diseases such as cancer.

She has experience in implementation science, evidence synthesis, and bioethics, with a strong interest in improving healthcare delivery in low-resource settings. She is currently involved in an evidence-based project assessing the implementation of point-of-care (POC) diagnostic services to enhance access and delivery in rural primary healthcare settings in Zambia and other sub-Saharan African contexts.

She holds a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Health Sciences from the University of Bergen in Norway and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Zambia in Lusaka.

SANTHE is an Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) flagship programme funded by the Science for Africa Foundation through the DELTAS Africa programme; the Gates Foundation; Gilead Sciences Inc.; and the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.