Matthew Chersich

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ID308705
NOMEMatthew Chersich
PRENOMESMatthew
SOBRENOMEChersich
ASSINATURACHERSICH M
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0002-4320-9168
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS60
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES5
TOTAL COMO AUTOR60
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2008
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Coping with extreme heat in primary maternity care

    Open AccessFortunate Machingura, Tariro Chinozvina et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2026

    Highlights: •Health workers deliver maternity care in conditions of extreme, escalating heat. •First empirical qualitative study in Africa to examine how staff navigate extreme heat in maternity wards. •First qualitative ethnography globally to apply Adaptive Thermal Comfort Theory to clinical labour. •Heat adaptation emerges as a collective, resource-dependent, institutional and material process. •Protecting frontline staff from extreme heat is …

  • Through their lens

    Open AccessIjeoma Solarin, Fiona Scorgie et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2026

    Rising global temperatures and heatwaves pose major health risks, particularly for pregnant women, infants and other vulnerable groups. Using Photovoice, we aimed to foreground how pregnant and postpartum women in an urban township in Tshwane, South Africa, experience and cope with heat stress. Fourteen women participated in two structured workshops held during the hot season (December 2023-January 2024). The first included reflective discussions…

  • Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change

    Open AccessColin J Carlson, Dann Mitchell et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2025

    Over the last decade, attribution science has shown that climate change is responsible for substantial death, disability and illness. However, health impact attribution studies have focused disproportionately on populations in high-income countries, and have mostly quantified the health outcomes of heat and extreme weather. A clearer picture of the global burden of climate change could encourage policymakers to treat the climate crisis like a pub…

  • Reducing extreme heat impacts on health in pregnant women and infants

    Open AccessAdelaide Lusambili, F Scorgie et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025Referências: 27

    High ambient temperatures affect maternal and newborn health outcomes and wellbeing. The Climate Heat and Maternal and Neonatal Health in Africa (CHAMNHA) consortium conducted formative qualitative research in rural Kilifi, Kenya, to examine perceptions of heat risks among women, household members, and community stakeholders. An intervention was co-designed together with community members. This paper presents the development, implementation, and …

  • Intervention co-design to reduce the impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Burkina Faso

    Open AccessKadidiatou Kadio, Mariam Congo et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025Referências: 26

    Interventions are needed to reduce the impact of heat on the health and wellbeing of women and newborns in Burkina Faso where seasonal temperatures can be extremely high. In this article, we share our experience and lessons learned from co-designing an intervention to improve maternal and neonatal health, about heat in a rural and an urban district of Burkina Faso. We performed community engagement and a series of workshops with 49 community memb…

  • A WHO-led global strategy to control greenhouse gas emissions

    Open AccessMatthew Chersich, Nicholas Brink et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2024

  • Scoping Review of Climate Change Adaptation Interventions for Health

    Open AccessNicholas Brink, Kehkashan Mansoor et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Climate change is among the greatest threats to health in the 21st century, requiring the urgent scaling-up of adaptation interventions. We aim to summarise adaptation interventions that were funded by the Belmont Forum and the European Union, the largest global funders of climate change and health research. A systematic search was conducted (updated February 2023) to identify articles on adaptation interventions for health within this funding ne…

  • Process and outputs from a community codesign workshop on reducing impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Kilifi, Kenya

    Open AccessAdelaide Lusambili, Peter Khaemba et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Ambient heat exposure is increasing due to climate change and is known to affect the health of pregnant and postpartum women, and their newborns. Evidence for the effectiveness of interventions to prevent heat health outcomes in east Africa is limited. Codesigning and integrating local-indigenous and conventional knowledge is essential to develop effective adaptation to climate change. Methods: Following qualitative research on heat i…

  • "Mothers get really exhausted!" The lived experience of pregnancy in extreme heat

    Open AccessF Scorgie, Adelaide Lusambili et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Citada por: 4Referências: 38

    Heat exposure in pregnancy is associated with a range of adverse health and wellbeing outcomes, yet research on the lived experience of pregnancy in high temperatures is lacking. We conducted qualitative research in 2021 in two communities in rural Kilifi County, Kenya, a tropical savannah area currently experiencing severe drought. Pregnant and postpartum women, their male spouses and mothers-in-law, community health volunteers, and local health…

  • The economics of sex work and major sporting events

    Open AccessJacob Kazungu, Marlise Richter et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2022

    Risk-taking in sex work is related to financial gains from condom-protected and condomless-acts alongside vulnerabilities, including socio-economic factors, which influence the safety of sex workers. Large international sporting events have been shown to significantly impact the economies of host countries, but there is a dearth of studies that examine how major sporting events may affect the economics of sex work and the risks taken by sex worke…

  • Past and projected climate change impacts on heat-related child mortality in Africa

    Open AccessSarah Chapman, Cyril Birch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Children (<5 years) are highly vulnerable during hot weather due to their reduced ability to thermoregulate. There has been limited quantification of the burden of climate change on health in sub-Saharan Africa, in part due to a lack of evidence on the impacts of weather extremes on mortality and morbidity. Using a linear threshold model of the relationship between daily temperature and child mortality, we estimated the impact of climate change o…

  • A Transdisciplinary Approach to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa

    Open AccessCaradee Y Wright, Candice Moore et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The health sector response to dealing with the impacts of climate change on human health, whether mitigative or adaptive, is influenced by multiple factors and necessitates creative approaches drawing on resources across multiple sectors. This short communication presents the context in which adaptation to protect human health has been addressed to date and argues for a holistic, transdisciplinary, multisectoral and systems approach going forward…

  • Covid-19 in Africa

    Open AccessMatthew Chersich, Glenda Gray et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

    Medical staff caring for COVID-19 patients face mental stress, physical exhaustion, separation from families, stigma, and the pain of losing patients and colleagues. Many of them have acquired SARS-CoV-2 and some have died. In Africa, where the pandemic is escalating, there are major gaps in response capacity, especially in human resources and protective equipment. We examine these challenges and propose interventions to protect healthcare worker…

  • Climate change adaptation in South Africa

    Open AccessMatthew Chersich, Caradee Y WrightARTICLEGlobalization and Health2019

    BACKGROUND: Globally, the response to climate change is gradually gaining momentum as the impacts of climate change unfold. In South Africa, it is increasingly apparent that delays in responding to climate change over the past decades have jeopardized human life and livelihoods. While slow progress with mitigation, especially in the energy sector, has garnered much attention, focus is now shifting to developing plans and systems to adapt to the i…

  • Involving men to improve maternal and newborn health

    Open AccessMariam Tokhi, Liz Comrie-Thomson et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2018

  • Unicef’s contribution to the adoption and implementation of option B+ for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV

    Open AccessMatthew Chersich, M F Chersich et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    BACKGROUND: Between 2011 and 2013, global and national guidelines for preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV shifted to recommend Option B+, the provision of lifelong antiretroviral treatment for all HIV-infected pregnant women. METHODS: We aimed to analyse how Option B+ reached the policy agenda, and unpack the processes, actors and politics that explain its adoption, with a focus on examining UNICEF's contribution to these event…

  • Advancing STI priorities in the SDG era

    Open AccessMatthew Chersich, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    The Sustainable Development Goals present an opportunity to reimagine and then reconfigure the approach to controlling sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The predilection of STIs for women and for vulnerable populations means that services that ameliorate STIs, by their nature, enhance equity, a key focus of the goals. Given the considerable breadth and depth of the goals, it is important to locate points of convergence between the SDGs and …

  • Social health insurance contributes to universal coverage in South Africa, but generates inequities

    Open AccessJane Goudge, Olufunke A Alaba et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2018

    By introducing the scheme, the government chose to prioritise access to private sector care for government employees, over improving the availability and quality of public sector services available to all. Government has recently regained its focus on achieving UHC through the public system, but is unlikely to discontinue GEMS, which is now firmly established. The inequities generated by the scheme have thus been institutionalised within the coun…

  • Priority gaps and promising areas in maternal health research in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessMatthew Chersich, Matthew F Chersich et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    This commentary sums the findings of a series of papers on a study that mapped the global research agenda for maternal health. The mapping reviewed published interventional research across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) from 2000 to 2012, specifically focusing on investigating the topics covered by this research, the methodologies applied, the funding landscape and trends in authorship attribution.The overarching aim underpinning the ma…

  • At the Heart of the Problem

    Open AccessHelen Rees, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Urban life in the twenty-first century is marked by numerous stresses and shocks, resulting from rapid urbanisation, frequent migration and crowding, massive unemployment, climate change, physical disasters, and disease outbreaks, among other challenges. This reality – according to the ‘100 Resilient Cities’ initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation – is why the concept of resilience is critical to a sustainable future: cities must learn to “survi…

  • Prevalence of anogenital HPV infection, related disease and risk factors among HIV-infected men in inner-city Johannesburg, South Africa

    Open AccessAdmire Chikandiwa, Lucy Chimoyi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    In this population, anogenital HR-HPV infection and associated low-grade disease is common, but severe anal dysplasia was not detected. Findings reinforce the need for HPV vaccination in men for preventing both AGWs and HR-HPV infection. Given the absence of anal HSILs, however, the findings do not support the use of anal screening programmes in this population

  • Is laboratory screening prior to antiretroviral treatment useful in Johannesburg, South Africa? Baseline findings of a clinical trial

    Open AccessFrançois Venter, Willem D F Venter et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Hepatitis B continues to be a common co-infection in HIV-infected adults, and adds complexity to management of ART switches involving tenofovir. Routine renal and haematological screening prior to ART detected few abnormalities. The use of these screening tests should be assessed among patients with higher CD4 counts, who may even have fewer abnormalities. Formal evaluation of cost-effectiveness of laboratory screening prior to ART is warranted

  • Using surrogate vaccines to assess feasibility and acceptability of future HIV vaccine trials in men

    Open AccessLucy Chimoyi, Mphatso Kamndaya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Recruitment and retention of men into vaccine trials is feasible and acceptable in our setting. Findings from this surrogate vaccine trial show a high willingness to participate in future HIV vaccine trials. While access to potentially effective vaccines is important, quality health services are an equally compelling incentive for enrolment

  • Alcohol use and sexual risk behaviour among men and women in inner-city Johannesburg, South Africa

    Open AccessBraimoh Bello, Harry Moultrie et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Alcohol use and sexual behaviours are strongly linked among male and female migrant populations in inner-city Johannesburg. More rigorous interventions at both local and macro level are needed to alleviate alcohol harms and mitigate the alcohol-HIV nexus, especially among already vulnerable groups. These should target the specific dimensions of alcohol use that are harmful, assist women who drink to do so more safely and address the linkages betw…

  • Leaving no one behind’

    Open AccessF Scorgie, Jo Vearey et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    To improve efforts to address HIV in urban informal settings, intervention designers must acknowledge and engage with the priorities set by the marginalised communities that live here, which may well encompass more pressing issues associated with daily survival