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Catherine MacPhail

Catherine MacPhail

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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49
Citations
11095
World Ranking
2919
National Ranking
210

Overview

Catherine MacPhail is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and health professions, with a total of 55 publications in social sciences and 46 in health professions. Within these, subfields such as general health professions, economics and econometrics, health, infectious diseases, and sociology and political science are notably represented.

The scientist's main research topics include adolescent sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS impact and responses, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, poverty, education and child welfare, intimate partner and family violence, health disparities and outcomes, and issues related to sex work.

MacPhail has been involved in publications across various academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Public Health Nursing
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd
  • BMC Psychology

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by MacPhail are:

  • The social determinants of health and health outcomes among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review (2021, Public Health Nursing)
  • The impact of interventions to reduce risk and incidence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict states and other humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries: a systematic review (2021, Conflict and Health)
  • Parents' knowledge, beliefs, acceptance and uptake of the HPV vaccine in members of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies (2021, Vaccine)
  • A systematic review of the effectiveness of dust control measures adopted to reduce workplace exposure (2023, Environmental Science and Pollution Research)
  • Social Media as a Platform for Recruitment to a National Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Feasibility and Cost Analysis (2021, JMIR Formative Research)

Frequent collaborators include Audrey Pettifor, Kathleen Kahn, Rhian Twine, Amanda Selin, and F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, reflecting ongoing partnerships in research activities.

Best Publications

  • 'I think condoms are good but, aai, I hate those things': condom use among adolescents and young people in a Southern African township.

    Catherine MacPhail;Catherine M. Campbell

  • Young people's sexual health in South Africa: HIV prevalence and sexual behaviors from a nationally representative household survey

    Audrey E Pettifor;Helen V Rees;Immo Kleinschmidt;Annie E Steffenson

  • Peer education, gender and the development of critical consciousness: participatory HIV prevention by South African youth.

    Catherine M. Campbell;Catherine MacPhail

  • Process guidelines for establishing Intercoder Reliability in qualitative studies

    Catherine MacPhail;Nomhle Khoza;Laurie Abler;Meghna Ranganathan

  • HIV and sexual behaviour among young South Africans: a national survey of 15-24 year olds.

    Pettifor Ae;Rees Hv;Steffenson A;Hlongwa-Madikizela L

  • Early coital debut and associated HIV risk factors among young women and men in South Africa

    Audrey E Pettifor;Katie O'Brien;Catherine MacPhail;William C Miller

  • HIV infection among youth in a South African mining town is associated with herpes simplex virus-2 seropositivity and sexual behaviour.

    Bertran Auvert;Ron Ballard;Catherine Campbell;Michel Caraël

  • The effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV incidence in young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068): a phase 3, randomised controlled trial

    Audrey Pettifor;Catherine MacPhail;Catherine MacPhail;James P Hughes;James P Hughes;Amanda Selin

  • Can money prevent the spread of HIV? A review of cash payments for HIV prevention

    Audrey Pettifor;Catherine MacPhail;Nadia Nguyen;Molly Rosenberg

  • Characteristics and outcomes of adult patients lost to follow-up at an antiretroviral treatment clinic in johannesburg, South Africa

    Rishikesh P Dalal;Catherine Macphail;Mmabatho Mqhayi;Jeff Wing

  • Keep them in school: the importance of education as a protective factor against HIV infection among young South African women

    Audrey E Pettifor;Brooke A Levandowski;Catherine MacPhail;Nancy S Padian

  • Validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to screen for depression in a high-HIV burden primary healthcare clinic in Johannesburg South Africa.

    Rushina Cholera;Bradley Gaynes;Brian Pence;Jean Bassett

  • Factors associated with self-efficacy for condom use and sexual negotiation among South african youth.

    Jennifer N. Sayles;Audrey Pettifor;Mitchell D. Wong;Catherine MacPhail;Catherine MacPhail

  • The social determinants of health and health outcomes among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.

    Heidi Green;Heidi Green;Ritin Fernandez;Ritin Fernandez;Catherine MacPhail

  • Contraception use and pregnancy among 15-24 year old South African women: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey.

    Catherine MacPhail;Audrey E Pettifor;Audrey E Pettifor;Sophie Pascoe;Helen V Rees

  • Factors associated with HIV testing among sexually active South African youth aged 15–24 years

    Catherine MacPhail;Audrey Pettifor;Witness Moyo;Helen Rees

  • “You Must Do the Test to Know Your Status”: Attitudes to HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing for Adolescents Among South African Youth and Parents

    Catherine Lorne MacPhail;Audrey Pettifor;Tom Coates;Helen Rees

  • A community-based study to examine the effect of a youth HIV prevention intervention on young people aged 15-24 in South Africa: results of the baseline survey

    Audrey E. Pettifor;Immo Kleinschmidt;Jonathan Levin;Helen V. Rees

  • Relative risk of HIV infection among young men and women in a South African township.

    Catherine MacPhail;Brian G. Williams;Catherine M. Campbell

  • Transactional sex among young women in rural South Africa: prevalence, mediators and association with HIV infection

    Meghna Ranganathan;Meghna Ranganathan;Lori Heise;Audrey Pettifor;Richard J Silverwood

  • HPTN 068: A Randomized Control Trial of a Conditional Cash Transfer to Reduce HIV Infection in Young Women in South Africa—Study Design and Baseline Results

    Audrey Pettifor;Audrey Pettifor;Catherine MacPhail;Catherine MacPhail;Amanda Selin;F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé

Frequent Co-Authors

Audrey Pettifor
Audrey Pettifor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand
Suzanne Maman
Suzanne Maman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Oliver Laeyendecker
Oliver Laeyendecker Johns Hopkins University
Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Catherine Campbell
Catherine Campbell London School of Economics and Political Science
Torsten B. Neilands
Torsten B. Neilands University of California, San Francisco
Susan H. Eshleman
Susan H. Eshleman Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
John Scott
John Scott Queensland University of Technology
Victor Minichiello
Victor Minichiello Queensland University of Technology

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