Affiliation
Research Director, Human Sciences Research Council

Address

Human Sciences Research Council

PO Box 34115

Newton Park

6055

Republic of South Africa

 

Contact

nphaswanamafuya@hsrc.ac.za

 

Biosketch

Dr Phaswana-Mafuya is the Research Director of the HSRC and leading the first ever nationally representative epidemiological survey on ageing and health in South Africa. She holds a degree in Social Work, a Masters in Social Work – Gerontology and a PhD in Injury Prevention, obtained from the University of the North, South Africa. Dr Phaswana-Mafuya also completed a number of professional courses in data analysis packages as well as other professional courses. She furthermore has served as PI and Co-PI on approximately 15 projects in the past 5 years, serves as external examiner for 5 tertiary institutions and also as review panel member of 5 peer reviewed journals.

 

Key research/capacity building interests

 

Research Interests

• Ageing and health survey– epidemiological survey on ageing and health covering various health domains including non-communicable chronic diseases
• Health Systems – research on health services needs and health system responsiveness especially non-communicable chronic diseases among ageing population
• Health Promotion Interventions – implementation of chronic disease health promotion interventions among the ageing population
• Patient Satisfaction Surveys – research to determine level of satisfaction with health services, especially with chronic diseases’ health services
• Health care quality – research to improve quality of health services

Capacity Building Interests

• Mentoring

Key methodological skills

• Experienced in qualitative, quantitative, national survey, intervention, evaluation and desktop research methods as well as ethnographic studies

Current/planned research

• National Ageing and Health Survey in South Africa – data analysis, report writing and dissemination
• Collaborative project on epidemiological modelling of chronic non-communicable diseases.
• Collaborative project on non-communicable chronic diseases research training

Current interest in capacity building

• To develop research capacity for non-communicable chronic disease research training.