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  • Prof Stephen Tollman (Participant)


    Steve Tollman (MBBCh, MMed, MA, MPH, PhD) is founding director of the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), and director of the Health and Population Division in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand. He is a member of the Harvard Centre for Population & Development Steve studied medicine at Wits University, philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and public health at Harvard University. Steve was the founding Board Chair of INDEPTH (International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health) and was a principal investigator for multi-center research into ageing, migration, health, cardiovascular genomics, and cause-of-death. He serves on several fellowship and grant review panels. His ongoing commission participation includes Migration and Health (UCL-Lancet)