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Heiner Grosskurth is affiliated with the University of London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on public health and infectious diseases. Their research spans several key areas within medicine, including general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and emergency medicine.

The scientist's work addresses a range of main topics involving clinical and community health interventions. These include HIV/AIDS research and interventions, global maternal and child health, obesity, physical activity, diet, HIV-related health complications and treatments, physical activity and health, mobile health and mHealth applications, and issues related to child nutrition and water access.

Frequent collaborators of Heiner Grosskurth include Saidi Kapiga, Philip Ayieko, Elialilia S. Okello, Mary Mosha, and Sia E. Msuya. Their research outputs have appeared in various publication venues, notably AAS Open Research, BMC Public Health, AIDS and Behavior, BMC Health Services Research, and Research Square.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Grosskurth are:

  • Understanding mobility and sexual risk behaviour among women in fishing communities of Lake Victoria in East Africa: a qualitative study (2020, BMC Public Health)
  • Hand hygiene intervention to optimise soil-transmitted helminth infection control among primary school children: the Mikono Safi cluster randomised controlled trial in northwestern Tanzania (2021, BMC Medicine)
  • Linkage Case Management and Posthospitalization Outcomes in People With HIV (2024, JAMA)
  • Factors Associated with Short and Long Term Mobility and HIV Risk of Women Living in Fishing Communities Around Lake Victoria in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda: A Cross Sectional Survey (2022, AIDS and Behavior)
  • Hand hygiene intervention to optimize helminth infection control: Design and baseline results of Mikono Safi-An ongoing school-based cluster-randomised controlled trial in NW Tanzania (2020, PLoS ONE)

Best Publications

  • Impact of improved treatment of sexually transmitted diseases on HIV infection in rural Tanzania: randomised controlled trial

    H. Grosskurth;J. Todd;E. Mwijarubi;P. Mayaud

  • PRO2000 vaginal gel for prevention of HIV-1 infection (Microbicides Development Programme 301): a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, parallel-group trial

    Sheena McCormack;Gita Ramjee;Anatoli Kamali;Helen Rees

  • Control of sexually transmitted diseases for HIV-1 prevention: understanding the implications of the Mwanza and Rakai trials.

    Heiner Grosskurth;Ronald Gray;Richard Hayes;David Mabey

  • Single-Dose Azithromycin versus Penicillin G Benzathine for the Treatment of Early Syphilis

    Gabriele Riedner;Mary Rusizoka;Jim Todd;Leonard Maboko

  • Biological and behavioural impact of an adolescent sexual health intervention in Tanzania: a community-randomized trial.

    David A. Ross;John Changalucha;Angela I. N. Obasi;Jim Todd

  • The epidemiology of HIV-1 infection in urban areas, roadside settlements and rural villages in Mwanza Region, Tanzania.

    Barongo Lr;Borgdorff Mw;Mosha Ff;Nicoll A

  • Rates of virological failure in patients treated in a home-based versus a facility-based HIV-care model in Jinja, southeast Uganda: a cluster-randomised equivalence trial

    Shabbar Jaffar;Barbara Amuron;Susan Foster;Josephine Birungi

  • Cost-effectiveness of improved treatment services for sexually transmitted diseases in preventing HIV-1 infection in Mwanza region Tanzania.

    Lucy Gilson;Rashid Mkanje;Heiner Grosskurth;Heiner Grosskurth;Frank Mosha

  • Preparedness of Tanzanian health facilities for outpatient primary care of hypertension and diabetes: a cross-sectional survey

    Robert Peck;Janneth Mghamba;Fiona Vanobberghen;Bazil Kavishe

  • Incidence of HIV infection in stable sexual partnerships: a retrospective cohort study of 1802 couples in Mwanza Region, Tanzania.

    Stephane Hugonnet;Frank Mosha;James Todd;Kokugonza. Mugeye

  • A community trial of the impact of improved sexually transmitted disease treatment on the HIV epidemic in rural Tanzania: 2. Baseline survey results.

    Grosskurth H;Mosha F;Todd J;Senkoro K

  • A community trial of the impact of improved sexually transmitted disease treatment on the HIV epidemic in rural Tanzania: 1. Design.

    Richard Hayes;Frank Mosha;Angus Nicoll;Heiner Grosskurth

  • Mortality and loss-to-follow-up during the pre-treatment period in an antiretroviral therapy programme under normal health service conditions in Uganda

    Barbara Amuron;Barbara Amuron;Geoffrey Namara;Geoffrey Namara;Josephine Birungi;Christine Nabiryo

  • Determinants of the Impact of Sexually Transmitted Infection Treatment on Prevention of HIV Infection: A Synthesis of Evidence from the Mwanza, Rakai, and Masaka Intervention Trials

    E. L. Korenromp;R. G. White;K. K. Orroth;R. Bakker

  • Antibody to Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 as a Marker of Sexual Risk Behavior in Rural Tanzania

    Angela Obasi;Frank Mosha;Maria Quigley;Zebedayo Sekirassa

  • Sexual Behaviour Patterns and Other Risk Factors for HIV Infection in Rural Tanzania: A Case-Control Study

    Maria Quigley;Katua Munguti;Heiner Grosskurth;James Todd

  • High prevalence of hypertension and of risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs): a population based cross-sectional survey of NCDS and HIV infection in Northwestern Tanzania and Southern Uganda

    Bazil Kavishe;Samuel Biraro;Kathy Baisley;Fiona Vanobberghen;Fiona Vanobberghen

  • Herpes simplex virus type 2 infection increases HIV incidence: a prospective study in rural Tanzania.

    María del Mar Pujades Rodríguez;Angela Obasi;Frank Mosha;Jim Todd

  • Pregnancy and infant outcomes among HIV-infected women taking long-term ART with and without tenofovir in the DART trial.

    Diana M. Gibb;Hilda Kizito;Elizabeth C. Russell;Ennie Chidziva

  • "Impact of Improved Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases on HIV Infection in Rural Tanzania: Randomised Controlled Trial."

    Heiner Grosskurth;Frank Mosha;James Todd;Ezra Mwijarubi

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Hayes
Richard J. Hayes London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jim Todd
Jim Todd London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Mabey
David Mabey London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Helen A. Weiss
Helen A. Weiss London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Anatoli Kamali
Anatoli Kamali International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Pontiano Kaleebu
Pontiano Kaleebu London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Charles F. Gilks
Charles F. Gilks University of Queensland
Janet Seeley
Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
James A. G. Whitworth
James A. G. Whitworth London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Shabbar Jaffar
Shabbar Jaffar University College London

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