Data for Health in Africa Meeting
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5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
23 - 29 August 2025
CEDI Centre, University of Ghana, Accra

Prof Stephen Tollman - Participant

MADIVA: Multimorbidity in Africa: Digital innovation, visualisation and application (Co-PI)

Stephen Tollman is founding director of the SAMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) and a research professor in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand. He is responsible for leadership and coordination of a world-class health and sociodemographic platform (Agincourt HDSS), and multidisciplinary research spanning the life course. Though trained in African and US/UK institutions, Steve's professional life is based in South Africa with extensive efforts building advanced research capability in African settings. He was a founder and Board Chair of INDEPTH (2002-06), an exceptional research network led from the global South. As principal scientist, he provided strategic direction to multicentre efforts in cause-of-death, ageing, and migration and health. He was instrumental in gaining government investment to establish SAPRIN, a South African network of research platforms addressing health inequalities. Tollman is a Co-PI on MADIVA, ensuring that SAMRC/Wits-Agincourt contributions to projects and cores are effective, and that MADIVA amply fulfils its stated goals and objectives.