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2026

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80
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World Ranking
383
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8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Kathleen Kahn is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their work spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Health Professions. The main subfields of their research include General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Economics and Econometrics, and Health.

Key topics in Kathleen Kahn's research involve:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

The scientist has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 incidence, transmission, and reinfection in a rural and an urban setting: results of the PHIRST-C cohort study, South Africa, 2020-21" (2022) in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Asymptomatic transmission and high community burden of seasonal influenza in an urban and a rural community in South Africa, 2017-18 (PHIRST): a population cohort study" (2021) in The Lancet Global Health
  • "SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in a Rural and Urban Household Cohort during First and Second Waves of Infections, South Africa, July 2020-March 2021" (2021) in Emerging infectious diseases
  • "HIV self-testing among young women in rural South Africa: A randomized controlled trial comparing clinic-based HIV testing to the choice of either clinic testing or HIV self-testing with secondary distribution to peers and partners" (2020) in EClinicalMedicine
  • "Measurement of kidney function in Malawi, South Africa, and Uganda: a multicentre cohort study" (2022) in The Lancet Global Health

Kathleen Kahn frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé
  • Audrey Pettifor
  • Stephen Tollman
  • Rhian Twine
  • Sheri A. Lippman

The scholar's work is often published in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • BMJ Open

Best Publications

  • Profile: Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System

    Kathleen Kahn;Mark A Collinson;F Xavier Gómez-Olivé;Obed Mokoena

  • Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

    Charles Rotimi;Akin Abayomi;Alash'le Abimiku;Victoria May Adabayeri

  • The prevalence of stunting, overweight and obesity, and metabolic disease risk in rural South African children

    Elizabeth W Kimani-Murage;Kathleen Kahn;Kathleen Kahn;John M Pettifor;Stephen M Tollman;Stephen M Tollman

  • Implications of mortality transition for primary health care in rural South Africa: a population-based surveillance study

    Stephen M Tollman;Stephen M Tollman;Kathleen Kahn;Kathleen Kahn;Benn Sartorius;Mark A Collinson

  • Validation and application of verbal autopsies in a rural area of South Africa.

    Kathleen Kahn;Stephen M. Tollman;Michel Garenne;John S. S. Gear

  • Predicting Bacteremia in Patients with Sepsis Syndrome

    Bates Dw;Sands K;Miller E;Lanken Pn

  • Returning home to die: circular labour migration and mortality in South Africa.

    Samuel J. Clark;Mark A. Collinson;Kathleen Kahn;Kyle Drullinger

  • 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

  • Strengthening standardised interpretation of verbal autopsy data: the new InterVA-4 tool

    Peter Byass;Daniel Chandramohan;Samuel J. Clark;Lucia D'Ambruoso

  • Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

    Paul Kowal;Kathleen Kahn;Nawi Ng;Nirmala Naidoo

  • Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System.

    Kathleen Kahn;Stephen M. Tollman;Mark A. Collinson;Samuel J. Clark

  • Highly prevalent circular migration: Households, mobility and economic status in rural South Africa

    Mark Collinson;Stephen Tollman;Kathleen Kahn;Samuel Clark

  • High Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Density, Increased by Viral Coinfection, Is Associated With Invasive Pneumococcal Pneumonia

    Nicole Wolter;Stefano Tempia;Cheryl Cohen;Shabir A. Madhi

  • Migration, settlement change and health in post-apartheid South Africa: triangulating health and demographic surveillance with national census data.

    Mark A. Collinson;Stephen M. Tollman;Kathleen Kahn

  • Respiratory Viral Coinfections Identified by a 10-Plex Real-Time Reverse-Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay in Patients Hospitalized With Severe Acute Respiratory Illness—South Africa, 2009–2010

    Marthi A Pretorius;Shabir A. Madhi;Shabir A. Madhi;Cheryl Cohen;Dhamari Naidoo

  • Cohort Profile: Health and Ageing in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI)

    F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé;F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé;Livia Montana;Ryan G. Wagner;Ryan G. Wagner;Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula;Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula

  • H3Africa AWI-Gen Collaborative Centre: a resource to study the interplay between genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in four sub-Saharan African countries.

    M Ramsay;N Crowther;E Tambo;G Agongo

  • Who dies from what? : determining cause of death in South Africa's rural north-east

    Kathleen Kahn;Stephen M. Tollman;Michel Garenne;John S. S. Gear

  • SARS-CoV-2 incidence, transmission, and reinfection in a rural and an urban setting: results of the PHIRST-C cohort study, South Africa, 2020–21

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  • Severe influenza-associated respiratory infection in high HIV prevalence setting, South Africa, 2009-2011

    Cheryl Cohen;Jocelyn Moyes;Stefano Tempia;Michelle Groom

  • Setting international standards for verbal autopsy

    Frank Baiden;Ayaga Bawah;Sidu Biai;Fred Binka

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Audrey Pettifor
Audrey Pettifor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Catherine MacPhail
Catherine MacPhail University of Wollongong
Mark A. Collinson
Mark A. Collinson University of the Witwatersrand
Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University
Cheryl Cohen
Cheryl Cohen University of the Witwatersrand
Marietjie Venter
Marietjie Venter University of Pretoria
Osman Sankoh
Osman Sankoh University of the Witwatersrand
Anne von Gottberg
Anne von Gottberg National Health Laboratory Service
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford

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