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Nuala McGrath is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in Medicine and Health Professions, with a particular focus on infectious diseases and epidemiology. Their scholarly output spans 78 publications in Medicine and 51 in Health Professions.

Their work covers several key subfields including General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Economics and Econometrics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The primary research topics addressed by McGrath include:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Diabetes Management and Education
  • Sex work and related issues

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on public health strategies, HIV prevention, and the experiences of youth in rural African contexts. Notable publications include:

  • "Universal weekly testing as the UK COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy" (2020), published in The Lancet
  • "Process evaluation of peer-to-peer delivery of HIV self-testing and sexual health information to support HIV prevention among youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: qualitative analysis" (2022), published in BMJ Open
  • "Thetha Nami: participatory development of a peer-navigator intervention to deliver biosocial HIV prevention for adolescents and youth in rural South Africa" (2021), published in BMC Public Health
  • "The association of exposure to DREAMS on sexually acquiring or transmitting HIV amongst adolescent girls and young women living in rural South Africa" (2022), published in AIDS
  • "Young people's experiences of sexual and reproductive health interventions in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa" (2020), published in International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McGrath include Janet Seeley, Maryam Shahmanesh, Thembelihle Zuma, Guy Harling, and Oluwafemi Adeagbo.

McGrath's work has been published across several venues repeatedly, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Public Health
  • BMJ Open
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • AIDS Care

Best Publications

  • Randomised trial of effects of vitamin supplements on pregnancy outcomes and T cell counts in HIV-1-infected women in Tanzania

    W. W. Fawzi;G. I. Msamanga;D. Spiegelman;E. J. N. Urassa

  • Population-level effect of HIV on adult mortality and early evidence of reversal after introduction of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi

    Andreas Jahn;Sian Floyd;Amelia C Crampin;Frank Mwaungulu

  • Intravaginal Practices, Bacterial Vaginosis, and HIV Infection in Women: Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis

    Nicola Low;Matthew F. Chersich;Matthew F. Chersich;Kurt Schmidlin;Matthias Egger

  • Hormonal Contraception and the Risk of HIV Acquisition: An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis

    Charles S. Morrison;Pai Lien Chen;Cynthia Kwok;Jared M. Baeten

  • Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and bacterial vaginosis among women in sub-Saharan Africa: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 18 HIV prevention studies

    Elizabeth A Torrone;Charles S Morrison;Pai-Lien Chen;Cynthia Kwok

  • Dispensing with marriage: Marital and partnership trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2000-2006.

    Victoria Hosegood;Nuala McGrath;Tom A. Moultrie

  • Universal test and treat and the HIV epidemic in rural South Africa: a phase 4, open-label, community cluster randomised trial

    Collins C Iwuji;Collins C Iwuji;Joanna Orne-Gliemann;Joseph Larmarange;Eric Balestre

  • Patterns of HIV, TB, and non-communicable disease multi-morbidity in peri-urban South Africa- a cross sectional study.

    Tolu Oni;Tolu Oni;Elizabeth Youngblood;Andrew Boulle;Andrew Boulle;Nuala McGrath;Nuala McGrath

  • Chronic diseases and multi-morbidity - a conceptual modification to the WHO ICCC model for countries in health transition

    Tolu Oni;Nuala McGrath;Nuala McGrath;Rhonda BeLue;Paul Roderick

  • Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among young people in South Africa: A nested survey in a health and demographic surveillance site.

    Suzanna C. Francis;T. Nondumiso Mthiyane;Kathy Baisley;S. Lerato Mchunu

  • Effect of concurrent sexual partnerships on rate of new HIV infections in a high-prevalence, rural South African population: a cohort study

    Frank Tanser;Till Bärnighausen;Till Bärnighausen;Lauren Hund;Geoffrey P. Garnett

  • Effect of community-based voluntary counselling and testing on HIV incidence and social and behavioural outcomes (NIMH Project Accept; HPTN 043): a cluster-randomised trial.

    Thomas J Coates;Michal Kulich;David D Celentano;Carla E Zelaya

  • Profile: the Karonga Health and Demographic Surveillance System.

    Amelia C Crampin;Albert Dube;Sebastian Mboma;Alison Price

  • A controlled trial of intravenous immune globulin for the prevention of serious bacterial infections in children receiving zidovudine for advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection

    Stephen A. Spector;Richard D. Gelber;Nuala McGrath;Diane Wara

  • Universal weekly testing as the UK COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy.

    Julian Peto;Nisreen A Alwan;Keith M Godfrey;Keith M Godfrey;Rochelle A Burgess

  • Gender, migration and HIV in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

    Carol S. Camlin;Victoria Hosegood;Victoria Hosegood;Marie-Louise Newell;Marie-Louise Newell;Nuala McGrath;Nuala McGrath

  • Health behaviour change interventions for couples: A systematic review

    Emily Arden-Close;Nuala McGrath;Nuala McGrath

  • The effects of high HIV prevalence on orphanhood and living arrangements of children in Malawi, Tanzania, and South Africa.

    Victoria Hosegood;Sian Floyd;Milly Marston;Caterina Hill

  • Age at first sex in rural South Africa.

    N. McGrath;M. Nyirenda;V. Hosegood;M. L. Newell

  • Frequency of and risk factors for HIV dementia in an HIV clinic in sub-Saharan Africa

    M. H. Wong;M. H. Wong;K. Robertson;N. Nakasujja;R. Skolasky

  • Population differences in immune responses to Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination in infancy.

    Maeve K. Lalor;Anne Ben-Smith;Patricia Gorak-Stolinska;Rosemary E. Weir

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-Louise Newell
Marie-Louise Newell University of Southampton
Victoria Hosegood
Victoria Hosegood University of Southampton
Janet Seeley
Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Linda Richter
Linda Richter University of the Witwatersrand
Lynae A. Darbes
Lynae A. Darbes University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark P. Nicol
Mark P. Nicol University of Western Australia
Lorraine Sherr
Lorraine Sherr University College London
Heidi J Larson
Heidi J Larson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Irving F. Hoffman
Irving F. Hoffman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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