Nicki Tiffin

Biographic Data

ID9064921
NAMENicki Tiffin
GIVEN NAMESNicki
FAMILY NAMETiffin
SIGNATURETIFFIN N
AFFILIATIONSSouth African Medical Research Council
ORCID0000-0001-5083-2735
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Community-led standards for global wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance

    Open AccessE A Smith, Maryam Ahmadi Jeshvaghane et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated global adoption of wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) and revealed its value as a complement to case-based infectious disease monitoring. However, practical scientific, ethical, and legal standards for public health implementation remain limited. To address this gap, the Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) established a multidisciplinary international working group to develop com…

  • The PHA4GE Microbial Data-Sharing Accord

    Open AccessEmma Griffiths, Emma J Griffiths et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Microbial data sharing underlies evidence-based microbial research, as well as pathogen surveillance and analysis essential to public health. While the need for data sharing was highlighted during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some concerns regarding secondary data use have also surfaced. Although general guidelines are available for data sharing, we note the absence of a set of established, universal, unambiguous and accessible principles to guide th…

  • Interdisciplinary perspectives on multimorbidity in Africa

    Open AccessJustin Dixon, Ben Morton et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Multimorbidity is an emerging challenge for health systems globally. It is commonly defined as the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions in one person, but its meaning remains a lively area of academic debate, and the utility of the concept beyond high-income settings is uncertain. This article presents the findings from an interdisciplinary research initiative that drew together 60 academic and applied partners working in 10 African co…

  • Kidney function in healthcare clients in Khayelitsha, South Africa

    Open AccessRichard Osei‐Yeboah, Olina Ngwenya et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    In South Africa, PLHIV are eligible for free ART and kidney function screening. Serum creatinine (SCr) laboratory test data from the National Health Laboratory Service are collated at the Provincial Health Data Centre and linked with other routine health data. We analysed SCr and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) results for PLHIV and HIV-negative healthcare clients aged 18–80 years accessing healthcare in Khayelitsha, South Africa and …

  • Multiple modes of data sharing can facilitate secondary use of sensitive health data for research

    Open AccessTsaone Tamuhla, Eddie T Lulamba et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Evidence-based healthcare relies on health data from diverse sources to inform decision-making across different domains, including disease prevention, aetiology, diagnostics, therapeutics and prognosis. Increasing volumes of highly granular data provide opportunities to leverage the evidence base, with growing recognition that health data are highly sensitive and onward research use may create privacy issues for individuals providing data. Concer…

  • Routine health data describe adherence and persistence patterns for oral diabetes medication for a virtual cohort in the Khayelitsha sub-district of Cape Town, South Africa

    Open AccessTsaone Tamuhla, Peter Raubenheimer et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is managed with combined lifestyle modifications and antidiabetic drugs, but people on treatment often fail to reach glycaemic control. Adherence is important for achieving optimal glycaemic control, and management of diabetes with drugs is a lifelong process, so understanding adherence through analysis of longitudinal medications data is important. Using retrospective routine health data and metformin dispensing r…

  • A framework for the promotion of ethical benefit sharing in health research

    Open AccessAnja Bedeker, Michelle Nichols et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    There is an increasing recognition of the importance of including benefit sharing in research programmes in order to ensure equitable and just distribution of the benefits arising from research. Whilst there are global efforts to promote benefit sharing when using non-human biological resources, benefit sharing plans and implementation do not yet feature prominently in research programmes, funding applications or requirements by ethics review boa…

  • Accessing HIV care may lead to earlier ascertainment of comorbidities in health care clients in Khayelitsha, Cape Town

    Open AccessRichard Osei‐Yeboah, Tsaone Tamuhla et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2021

    Successful antiretroviral rollout in South Africa has greatly increased the health of the HIV-positive population, and morbidity and mortality in PLHIV can increasingly be attributed to comorbidities rather than HIV/AIDS directly. Understanding this disease burden can inform health care planning for a growing population of ageing PLHIV. Anonymized routine administrative health data were analysed for all adults who accessed public health care in 2…

  • Patient-centric research in the time of Covid-19

    Open AccessVictoria Nembaware, Nchangwi Syntia Munung et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Research practices should be ethical and transparent, prioritising patient benefits and provision of health carehealthcare, and respecting participant autonomy.Priority should be given to research studies with the potential for immediate translated patient benefits based on realistic interventions appropriate to an African context. Institutional Ethics Review Boards should be supported to ensure high-quality, rapid review of research proposals. I…