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Appendix B

Participant List

Avaga Bawah

Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health

Columbia University

aab2161@columbia.edu

Melanie Bertram

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

mel.bertram@wits.ac.za

Peter Byass

Public Health and Clinical Medicine

Umeå University

peter.byass@epiph.umu.se

Somnath Chatterji

World Health Organization

chatterjis@who.int

Mark Collinson

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Mark@agincourt.co.za

Hoosen Coovadia

Nelson Mandela School of Medicine

University of KwaZulu-Natal

coovadiah@ukzn.ac.za

Pieter de Jager

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Pieter.dejager@wits.ac.za

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Barthélémy Kuate Defo

Department of Demography

University of Montreal

barthelemy.kuate.defo@umontreal.ca

Babalwa Dunga

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Babalwa.dunga@wits.ac.za

Riku Elovainio

World Health Organization

elovainior@who.int

Majid Ezzati

School of Public Health

Imperial College, London

Majid.ezzati@imperial.ac.uk

Alessandra Garbero

World Population Program

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

garbero@iiasa.ac.at

Carren Ginsburg

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

carren.ginsburg@wits.ac.za

Karen Hofman

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Karen.Hofman@wits.ac.za

Chodziwadziwa Kabudula

Faculty of Health Sciences

University of the Witwatersrand

cho@agincourt.co.za

Kathleen Kahn

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Kathleen.Kahn@wits.ac.za

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Taskeen Khan

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Taskeen.khan@wits.ac.za

Mandy Maredza

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Mandy.maredza@wits.ac.za

Robin Mejia

School of Public Health

University of California, Berkeley

rjmejia@berkeley.edu

Moffat Nyirenda

College of Medicine

University of Malawi

mnyirenda@mlw.medcol.mw

Mpho Phalatse

School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Mpho.phalatse@wits.ac.za

Gilles Pison

Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques

pison@ined.fr

Julie Knoll Rajaratnam

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

University of Washington

jrajarat@u.washington.edu

Alan D. Lopez

School of Population Health

University of Queensland

a.lopez@sph.uq.edu.au

Thomas Rehle

Human Sciences Research Council

trehle@hsrc.ac.za

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Richard M. Suzman

National Institute on Aging

National Institutes of Health

Richard.Suzman@nih.hhs.gov

Stephen Tollman

Health Systems Development Unit

University of the Witwatersrand

tollmansm@sph.wits.ac.za

Eric Udjo

Bureau of Market Research

University of South Africa

udjoe@unsia.ac.za

Michael White

Population Studies and Training Center

Brown University

michael_white@brown.edu

U.S. National Academy of Sciences Staff

Barney Cohen

Committee on Population

U.S. National Academy of Sciences

bcohen@nas.edu

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Among the poorest and least developed regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa has long faced a heavy burden of disease, with malaria, tuberculosis, and, more recently, HIV being among the most prominent contributors to that burden. Yet in most parts of Africa-and especially in those areas with the greatest health care needs-the data available to health planners to better understand and address these problems are extremely limited. The vast majority of Africans are born and will die without being recorded in any document or spearing in official statistics. With few exceptions, African countries have no civil registration systems in place and hence are unable to continuously generate vital statistics or to provide systematic information on patterns of cause of death, relying instead on periodic household-level surveys or intense and continuous monitoring of small demographic surveillance sites to provide a partial epidemiological and demographic profile of the population.

In 1991 the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences organized a workshop on the epidemiological transition in developing countries. The workshop brought together medical experts, epidemiologists, demographers, and other social scientists involved in research on the epidemiological transition in developing countries to discuss the nature of the ongoing transition, identify the most important contributors to the overall burden of disease, and discuss how such information could be used to assist policy makers in those countries to establish priorities with respect to the prevention and management of the main causes of ill health.

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from a workshop convened in October 2011 that featured invited speakers on the topic of epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan Africa. The workshop was organized by a National Research Council panel of experts in various aspects of the study of epidemiological transition and of sub-Saharan data sources. The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa serves as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop in October 2011.

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