DrGraeme Hoddinott

Senior Lecturer in Global Health

Faculty of Medicine and Health

Research projects & supervision summary

OASIS-PN - A five-year intervention co-development and capacity strengthening project (fellowship) to improve TB services for Adolescents in the Khomas region of Namibia.

DECIDE-TB - A pragmatic, step-wedge, randomised trial of an algorithm to diagnose TB in children 5-years-old and younger in Zambia and Mozambique.

Post-TB Care - A five-year intervention co-development and centre of excellence establishing project to address post-TB sequelae (lung health, and economic, social, and psychological consequences) in South Africa and Cambodia.

H3TB - A pragmatic pilot of three ways to optimise contact identification of people with MDR-TB in two regions in Namibia.

RADIANT Mums - A mixed-method evaluation of providers and patient priorities for shorter drug sensitive TB treatment regimens in South Africa and the Philippines.

IMPAACT 2020 - A multi-country, phase 2 safety, dosing, and acceptability trial of a shorter MDR-TB treatment regimen for children.

ChilPref Ext - A multi-phase, multi-component qualitative study on end-user preferences for a dose preparation tool to create oral suspensions of existing TB drugs to facilitate administration to children at two sites in South Africa.

ChilPref SF - A swish-and-spit taste panel evaluation of children's (3-17-years-old) preferences for suspending and flavour agents for a combined MDR-TB treatment regimen at two sites in South Africa.

CAPEs - An ethnographic study of the establishment and functioning of the emergent (global) post-TB science and clinical care communities.

Care4TBM - Optimising care pathways for children affected by TB meningitis in the Western Cape, South Africa.

DIMPLe - A co-development and alpha pilot of a simple intervention to mitigate the psycho-emotional distress of children hospitalised for TB care in South Africa.

LLAMA - Understanding people who have a household exposure to MDR-TB's perceptions of the importance of access to preventive therapy and risk trade-offs - a qualitative study in South Africa and Viet Nam.

UseMyVoice / SMASH-TB - A pilot and feasibility / acceptability evaluation of a community co-developed intervention to mitigate TB stigma in Cape Town, South Africa.

Phefumla - Evaluating the effectiveness of a human centred-, end-user co-designed hand-held pulse oximeter for emergency care / triage in primary care and hospital services in Cape Town, South Africa.

GoodCities - Understanding young people (15-24-years-old) perceptions of hope, stability, and governance to design better water and sanitation services in urban informal / semi-formal areas of Lusaka (Zambia) and Cape Town (South Africa).

UTRA - A pilot trial evaluation (efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability) of a point-of-care assay for HIV adherence assessment in Cape Town.

PsiLow - Developing core country measures and guidance for assessing HIV-associated, key population stigma in health facilities and among police services.

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • PROJECT
    PVal-TB
    1 Aug 2025
    Project leaders:
    • Hoddinott G
  • PROJECT
    TB Care Prefs - Viet Nam
    1 Apr 2025
    Project leaders:
    • Hoddinott G
  • PROJECT
    Radiant Mums
    1 Feb 2025
    Project leaders:
    • Hirsch-Moverman Y
    Collaborators:
    • Hoddinott G
    A mixed-method evaluation of providers and patient priorities for shorter drug sensitive TB treatment regimens in South Africa and the Philippines
  • PROJECT
    Post-TB Care
    1 Oct 2024
    Project leaders:
    • Houben R,
    • Allwood B
    Collaborators:
    • Hoddinott G
    A five-year intervention co-development and centre of excellence establishing project to address post-TB sequelae (lung health, and economic, social, and psychological consequences) in South Africa and Cambodia
  • PROJECT
    IMPAACT 2020
    1 Sep 2024
    Project leaders:
    • Garcia-Pratts A
    Collaborators:
    • Hoddinott G
    A multi-country, phase 2 safety, dosing, and acceptability trial of a shorter MDR-TB treatment regimen for children.
  • PROJECT
    DECIDE-TB
    1 Oct 2023
    Project leaders:
    • Marcy O,
    • Chabala C
    Collaborators:
    • Hoddinott G
    A pragmatic, step-wedge, randomised trial of an algorithm to diagnose TB in children 5-years-old and younger in Zambia and Mozambique
  • PROJECT
    Phefumla
    1 Jun 2023
    Project leaders:
    • McCollum E
    Collaborators:
    • Hoddinott G
    Evaluating the effectiveness of a human centred-, end-user co-designed hand-held pulse oximeter for emergency care / triage in primary care and hospital services in Cape Town, South Africa.
  • PROJECT
    OASYS-PN
    1 Aug 2022
    Project leaders:
    • Hoddinott G
    A five-year intervention co-development and capacity strengthening project (fellowship) to improve TB services for Adolescents in the Khomas region of Namibia
  • PROJECT
    Care4TBM
    1 Mar 2022
    Project leaders:
    • du Preez K
    Collaborators:
    • Hoddinott G
    Optimising care pathways for children affected by TB meningitis in the Western Cape, South Africa
  • PROJECT
    H3TB
    1 Mar 2021
    Project leaders:
    • Claassens M
    Collaborators:
    • Hoddinott G
    A pragmatic pilot of three ways to optimise contact identification of people with MDR-TB in two regions in Namibia
  • PROJECT
    Benefit Kids
    1 Oct 2020
    Project leaders:
    • Garcia-Pratts A
    Collaborators:
    • Hoddinott G
  • PROJECT
    UseMyVoice2EndTBStigma
    1 Oct 2018
    Project leaders:
    • Nathavithirana R
    Collaborators:
    • Hoddinott G
    A pilot and feasibility / acceptability evaluation of a community co-developed intervention to mitigate TB stigma in Cape Town, South Africa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A critical interrogation of the acceptability of antituberculosis treatment in caregivers, children, and adolescents in the Western Cape, South Africa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A historical and ethnographic study of efforts to preserve the efficacy of antitubercular and other antibiotics in South Africa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring gender identity amongst transgender and gender diverse people in the Western Cape, South Africa – implications for HIV and health services
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring the long-term psychosocial experiences of tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment among adolescents and young adults’ post-recovery in the Khomas region of Namibia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring the psychosocial experiences of adolescents and young adults undergoing TB treatment in the Khomas region, Namibia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Factors affecting wellbeing amongst healthcare providers in the Namibian tuberculosis programme
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Family, social, and intimate partner relationships among adolescents and young adults affected by tuberculosis in Namibia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Feasibility and acceptability of targeted case finding intervention strategies to improve drug-resistant tuberculosis control in high-burden regions in Namibia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Feasibility of implementing Treatment Decision Algorithms to improve childhood tuberculosis diagnosis at low levels of health care in southern Africa. Multi-disciplinary evaluation.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Health workers as mediators of drug-resistant (DR-) Tuberculosis (TB) information for patients – a study with mixed qualitative data towards pragmatic policy and practice recommendations in the Khayelitsha sub-district of the Western Cape Province, South Africa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Measuring health-related quality of life amongst children with respiratory illnesses in LMIC settings – a mixed-method approach toward developing a scale in Cape Town, South Africa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Namibian adolescent tuberculosis care cascade: a mixed method study for intervention development
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Strengthening the role of community health workers (CHWs) in addressing mental health care needs of adolescents and young people’ (AYP) - an exploratory study with qualitative data in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa