Robyn Curran

Biographic Data

ID7768086
NAMERobyn Curran
GIVEN NAMESRobyn
FAMILY NAMECurran
SIGNATURECURRAN R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cape Town
ORCID0000-0003-1337-0011
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • From face-to-face to e-learning

    Open AccessChristy-Joy Ras, Daniella Georgeu-Pepper et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Reliance on purely face-to-face in-service training for primary healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly unsustainable. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transition of the University of Cape Town Knowledge Translation Unit’s Practical Approach to Care Kit programme from a facility-based cascade model to online and blended learning formats. This paper analyses the implementation of this transition across 29 course…

  • A model-based approach to estimating the prevalence of disease combinations in South Africa

    Open AccessLeigh F Johnson, Reshma Kassanjee et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: The development of strategies to better detect and manage patients with multiple long-term conditions requires estimates of the most prevalent condition combinations. However, standard meta-analysis tools are not well suited to synthesising heterogeneous multimorbidity data. METHODS: We developed a statistical model to synthesise data on associations between diseases and nationally representative prevalence estimates and applied the m…

  • Clinically sound and person centred

    Open AccessRuth Cornick, Inge Petersen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    The care of people with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) is complex and time-consuming, often denying them the agency to self-manage their conditions—or for the clinician they visit to provide streamlined, person-centred care. We reconfigured The Practical Approach to Care Kit, our established, evidence-based, policy-aligned clinical decision support tool for low-resource primary care settings, to provide consolidated clinical guidance for a…

  • A prospective randomised controlled trial investigating household Sars-CoV-2 transmission in a densely populated community in Cape Town, South Africa – the transmission of Covid-19 in crowded environm…

    Open AccessPhilip Smith, Francesca Little et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Participants had significant exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infections prior to the study. In this setting, household transmission mitigation was ineffective. However, CHWs may have facilitated other important healthcare and social referrals

  • Applying learning health systems thinking in codeveloping integrated tuberculosis interventions in the contexts of Covid-19

    Open AccessAndré Janse Van Rensburg, Inge Petersen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic reversed much of global progress made in combatting tuberculosis, with South Africa experiencing one of the largest impacts on tuberculosis detection. The aim of this paper is to share our experiences in applying learning health systems (LHS) thinking to the codevelopment of an intervention improving an integrated response to COVID-19 and tuberculosis in a South African district. A sequential partially mixed-methods study wa…

  • HeAlth System StrEngThening in four sub-Saharan African countries (Asset) to achieve high-quality, evidence-informed surgical, maternal and newborn, and primary care

    Open AccessNadine Seward, C Hanlon et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    To achieve universal health coverage, health system strengthening (HSS) is required to support the of delivery of high-quality care. The aim of the National Institute for Health Research Global Research Unit on HeAlth System StrEngThening in Sub-Saharan Africa (ASSET) is to address this need in a four-year programme, with three healthcare platforms involving eight work-packages. Key to effective health system strengthening (HSS) is the pre-implem…