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Mark A. Collinson is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine, with notable activity in subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and General Health Professions.

Their scholarly focus includes several main topics:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Mark A. Collinson has contributed to a series of research papers, including:

  • "Internal migration and health in South Africa: determinants of healthcare utilisation in a young adult cohort," 2021, published in BMC Public Health
  • "Health and demographic surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries: history, state of the art and future prospects," 2021, published in Global Health Action
  • "Protective Behaviors and Secondary Harms Resulting From Nonpharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Epidemic in South Africa: Multisite, Prospective Longitudinal Study," 2021, published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
  • "A portfolio perspective of rural livelihoods in Bushbuckridge, South Africa," 2020, published in South African Journal of Science
  • "The impact of COVID-19 on a cohort of origin residents and internal migrants from South Africa's rural northeast," 2022, published in SSM - Population Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mark A. Collinson include:

  • F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé
  • Carren Ginsburg
  • Stephen Tollman
  • Kathleen Kahn
  • Sadson Harawa

Their work has appeared multiple times in several academic journals, such as:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Global Health Action
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Development Southern Africa
  • AIDS and Behavior

Best Publications

  • The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move

    Ibrahim Abubakar;Robert W Aldridge;Delan Devakumar;Miriam Orcutt

  • Profile: Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Migration and urbanisation in South Africa

    Pieter Kok;Mark Collinson

  • 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

  • Striving against adversity: the dynamics of migration, health and poverty in rural South Africa.

    Mark A. Collinson

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

    Mark Collinson;Stephen Tollman;Kathleen Kahn;Samuel Clark

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mortality trends in a new South Africa : hard to make a fresh start

    Kathleen Kahn;Michel L. Garenne;Mark A. Collinson;Stephen M. Tollman

  • Respiratory syncytial virus infection: denominator-based studies in Indonesia, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa.

    Susan E Robertson;Anna Roca;Pedro Alonso;Eric A F Simoes

  • Relationship between school dropout and teen pregnancy among rural South African young women

    Molly Rosenberg;Audrey Pettifor;William C Miller;Harsha Thirumurthy

  • Assessing Changes in Household Socioeconomic Status in Rural South Africa, 2001–2013: A Distributional Analysis Using Household Asset Indicators

    Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula;Brian Houle;Brian Houle;Brian Houle;Mark A. Collinson;Mark A. Collinson;Kathleen Kahn;Kathleen Kahn

  • Progression of the epidemiological transition in a rural South African setting: findings from population surveillance in Agincourt, 1993–2013

    Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula;Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula;Brian Houle;Brian Houle;Brian Houle;Mark A. Collinson;Mark A. Collinson;Kathleen Kahn;Kathleen Kahn

  • Rural Outmigration, Natural Capital, and Livelihoods in South Africa.

    Lori M. Hunter;Lori M. Hunter;Raphael Nawrotzki;Stefan Leyk;Galen J. Maclaurin

  • Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

    P Kim Streatfield;Wasif A Khan;Abbas Bhuiya;Nurul Alam

  • Molecular epidemiological analysis of community circulating respiratory syncytial virus in rural South Africa: Comparison of viruses and genotypes responsible for different disease manifestations.

    M. Venter;M. Collinson;B.D. Schoub

  • Child mobility maternal status and household composition in rural South Africa.

    Sangeetha Madhavan;Sangeetha Madhavan;Enid Schatz;Enid Schatz;Samuel Clark;Samuel Clark;Mark Collinson;Mark Collinson

  • Trends in Internal Labour Migration from Rural Limpopo Province, Male Risk Behaviour, and Implications for the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Rural South Africa

    Mark A Collinson;Brent Wolff;Stephen M Tollman;Kathleen Kahn

  • Moving from data on deaths to public health policy in Agincourt South Africa: approaches to analysing and understanding verbal autopsy findings.

    Peter Byass;Kathleen Kahn;Edward Fottrell;Mark A. Collinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand
Lori M. Hunter
Lori M. Hunter University of Colorado Boulder
Donatien Beguy
Donatien Beguy United Nations
Michael J. White
Michael J. White Brown University
Osman Sankoh
Osman Sankoh University of the Witwatersrand
Alex Ezeh
Alex Ezeh Drexel University
James R Hargreaves
James R Hargreaves London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Marietjie Venter
Marietjie Venter University of Pretoria
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford

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