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Shabbar Jaffar is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has focused primarily on research in medicine, with a strong emphasis on epidemiology and infectious diseases. Their work spans several subfields including economics and econometrics, emergency medicine, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Jaffar's research topics extensively cover HIV/AIDS research and interventions, HIV-related health complications and treatments, and global public health policies and epidemiology. Other key areas of focus include fungal infections and studies, global maternal and child health, and chronic disease management strategies.

Their frequent coauthors demonstrate collaborations with several researchers, including Sayoki Mfinanga, Anupam Garrib, Josephine Birungi, Kaushik Ramaiya, and Sokoine Kivuyo. These partnerships have contributed to a range of publications across notable venues.

Jaffar has published multiple papers in key scientific journals and platforms. Some recent significant works include:

  • Consensus statement on the role of health systems in advancing the long-term well-being of people living with HIV, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Integration of non-communicable disease and HIV/AIDS management: a review of healthcare policies and plans in East Africa, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • Prevalence of microvascular and macrovascular complications of diabetes in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes in low-and-middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, PLOS Global Public Health
  • Evidence informing the UK's COVID-19 public health response must be transparent, 2020, The Lancet
  • Integrated management of HIV, diabetes, and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa (INTE-AFRICA): a pragmatic cluster-randomised, controlled trial, 2023, The Lancet

Jaffar's work is regularly published in venues such as UNC Libraries, BMJ Open, BMC Health Services Research, http://isrctn.com/, and The Lancet, reflecting a broad engagement with public health and clinical research communities.

Best Publications

  • Efficacy of nine-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease in The Gambia: randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    F. T. Cutts;S. M. A. Zaman;G. Enwere;S. Jaffar

  • Randomised trial of Haemophilus influenzae type-b tetanus protein conjugate for prevention of pneumonia and meningitis in Gambian infants

    Kim Mulholland;Stephen Hilton;Richard Adegbola;Stanley Usen

  • Antifungal Combinations for Treatment of Cryptococcal Meningitis in Africa

    Síle F. Molloy;Cecilia Kanyama;Robert S. Heyderman;Angela Loyse

  • Determinants of Mortality in a Combined Cohort of 501 Patients With HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis: Implications for Improving Outcomes

    Joseph N. Jarvis;Tihana Bicanic;Angela Loyse;Daniel Namarika

  • Improving responsiveness of health systems to non-communicable diseases

    Rifat Atun;Shabbar Jaffar;Sania Nishtar;Felicia M Knaul

  • Prevalence of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes, and cascade of care in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional, population-based study in rural and urban Malawi.

    Alison J Price;Amelia C Crampin;Alemayehu Amberbir;Ndoliwe Kayuni-Chihana

  • A Trial of Artemether or Quinine in Children with Cerebral Malaria

    M. B. Van Hensbroek;E. Onyiorah;S. Jaffar;G. Schneider

  • Use of clinical algorithms for diagnosing malaria.

    Daniel Chandramohan;Shabbar Jaffar;Brian Greenwood

  • 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

  • Cryptococcal meningitis screening and community-based early adherence support in people with advanced HIV infection starting antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania and Zambia: an open-label, randomised controlled trial.

    Sayoki Mfinanga;Duncan Chanda;Sokoine L Kivuyo;Lorna Guinness

  • High-Dose Amphotericin B with Flucytosine for the Treatment of Cryptococcal Meningitis in HIV-Infected Patients: A Randomized Trial.

    Tihana Bicanic;Robin Wood;Graeme Meintjes;Kevin Rebe

  • Continued very high prevalence of HIV infection in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a population-based longitudinal study.

    Tanya Welz;Victoria Hosegood;Shabbar Jaffar;Jörg Bätzing-Feigenbaum

  • Protective Effect of Natural Rotavirus Infection in an Indian Birth Cohort

    Beryl P. Gladstone;Sasirekha Ramani;Indrani Mukhopadhya;Jayaprakash Muliyil

  • Independent Association between Rate of Clearance of Infection and Clinical Outcome of HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis: Analysis of a Combined Cohort of 262 Patients

    Tihana Bicanic;Conrad Muzoora;Annemarie E. Brouwer;Graeme Meintjes

  • Induction of Immunologic Memory in Gambian Children by Vaccination in Infancy with a Group A plus Group C Meningococcal Polysaccharide-Protein Conjugate Vaccine

    Amanda Leach;Patrick A. Twumasi;Samuel Kumah;Winston S. Banya

  • The Effect of a Monoclonal Antibody to Tumor Necrosis Factor on Survival from Childhood Cerebral Malaria

    M. B. van Hensbroek;A. Palmer;E. Onyiorah;G. Schneider

  • Dose Response Effect of High-Dose Fluconazole for HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis in Southwestern Uganda

    Nicky Longley;Nicky Longley;Conrad Muzoora;Kabanda Taseera;James Mwesigye

  • Relationship of cerebrospinal fluid pressure, fungal burden and outcome in patients with cryptococcal meningitis undergoing serial lumbar punctures.

    Tihana Bicanic;Annemarie E Brouwer;Graeme Meintjes;Kevin Rebe

  • Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis: a prospective study.

    Tihana Bicanic;Graeme Meintjes;Kevin Rebe;Anthony Williams

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Greenwood
Brian Greenwood London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Thomas S. Harrison
Thomas S. Harrison St George's, University of London
Heiner Grosskurth
Heiner Grosskurth University of London
Hilton Whittle
Hilton Whittle London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Robert S. Heyderman
Robert S. Heyderman University College London
Frances M. Cowan
Frances M. Cowan Imperial College London
Graeme Meintjes
Graeme Meintjes University of Cape Town
Louis W. Niessen
Louis W. Niessen Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Tihana Bicanic
Tihana Bicanic St George's, University of London
Richard J. Hayes
Richard J. Hayes London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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