Below are a list of completed and ongoing hepatitis A projects and publications.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Integrated Environmental Surveillance Implementation in South Africa (2025 – 2026): This project will support the formation of a South African Wastewater Modelling consortium to use mathematical modelling to assess the value of wastewater environmental surveillance to support public health response in the disease areas of measles, rubella and hepatitis A. Funder: Gates Foundation.
PUBLICATIONS
Patterson J, Cleary S, Norman JM, Van Zyl H, Awine T, Mayet S, Kagina B, Muloiwa R, Hussey G, Silal SP (2024). Modelling the Cost-Effectiveness of Hepatitis A in South Africa. Vaccines. 2024; 12(2):116. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines12020116
- Patterson, J., Cleary, S., Silal, S.P. et al. A retrospective study assessing the clinical outcomes and costs of acute hepatitis A in Cape Town, South Africa. BMC Infect Dis 22, 45. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06993-w
- Kuodi P., Patterson J., Silal SP., Hussey GD & Kagina B. (2020) Characterization of the environmental presence of hepatitis A virus in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 10 (9), e036407. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036407