PAPERS
2023
Abruquah N et al. Expanding Community Health Worker decision space: impacts of a Participatory Action Research training intervention in a rural South African district. Research Square 2023 [preprint] https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr592995
Hove J, Mabetha D, van der Merwe M, Twine R, Kahn K, Witter S, D'Ambruoso L. Participatory action research to address lack of safe water, a community-nominated health priority in rural South Africa. PLoS ONE 2023 Accepted, forthcoming
Mabetha D, Ojewola T, Merwe van der M, Mabika R, Goosen G, Sigudla J, Hove J, Witter, S, D’Ambruoso L. Realising radical potential: building community power in primary health care through Participatory Action Research. International Journal for Equity in Health 2023 22(1):1-22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01894-7
2022
D’Ambruoso L, Mabetha D, Twine R, van der Merwe M, Hove J, Goosen G, Sigudla J, Witter S. "Voice needs teeth to have bite"! Expanding community-led multisectoral action-learning to address alcohol and drug abuse in rural South Africa. PLOS Global Public Health 2022 2:10: e0000323 https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.03.22277088
D'Ambruoso L, Price J, Cowan E, Goosen G, Fottrell E, Herbst K, Van Der Merwe M, Sigudla J, Davies J, Kahn K. Refining Circumstances of Mortality Categories (COMCAT): a verbal autopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for public health decision-making. Global Health Action 2022, 14, 2000091. 10.1080/16549716.2021.2000091.
Mattila P, Davies J, Mabetha D, Tollman S, D’Ambruoso L. Burden of Mortality Linked to Community-nominated Priorities in Rural South Africa. Global Health Action 2022 15:1, 2013599 https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.2013599
Hove, J., D'Ambruoso, L. et al. Lessons from community participation in primary health care and water resource governance in South Africa: a narrative review. Global Health Action 2022; 15(1):2004730
https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.2004730
2021
D’Ambruoso L, Abbott P, Binagwaho A. Building back fairer in public health policy requires collective action with and for the most vulnerable in society. BMJ Global Health 2021;6(3):e005555. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005555
Cowan E et al. Dataset: Verbal Autopsy data from Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites in South Africa”. F100 Research 2021. Accepted, forthcoming
Hove J, D'Ambruoso L, Twine R, Mabetha D, Van Der Merwe M, Mtungwa I, Khoza S, Kahn K, Witter S. Developing stakeholder participation to address lack of safe water as a community health concern in a rural province in South Africa Global Health Action 2021;14:1973715. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1973715
Van Der Merwe MS, D'Ambruoso L, Witter S, Twine R, Mabetha D, Hove J, Byass P, Tollman S, Kahn K. Collective reflections on the first cycle of a collaborative learning platform to strengthen rural primary health care in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Health Research Policy and Systems 2021;19:66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00716-y
Cowan E, D’Ambruoso L, van der Merwe M, Witter S, Byass P, Ameh S, Wagner R, Twine R. Understanding non-communicable diseases: combining health surveillance with local knowledge to improve rural primary health care in South Africa. Global Health Action 2021 14(1):1852781. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F16549716.2020.1852781
2020
Oladeinde, O, Mabetha, D, Twine, R, Hove, J, Van Der Merwe, M, Witter, S, Kahn, K & D'Ambruoso, L 2020, 'Building cooperative learning to address alcohol and other drug abuse in Mpumalanga, South Africa: a participatory action research process', Global Health Action, vol. 13, no. 1, 1726722. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F16549716.2020.1726722
Witter, S, Van Der Merwe, M, Twine, R, Mabetha, D, Hove, J, Goosen, G & D'Ambruoso, L 2020, 'Verbal autopsy with participatory action research (VAPAR) programme in Mpumalanga, South Africa: protocol for evaluation', BMJ Open, vol. 10, no. 2, e036597. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036597
2019
Hussain-Alkhateeb L, D'Ambruoso L, Tollman S, Kahn K, Van Der Merwe M, Twine R, Schiöler L & Petzold M (2019). Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems: adding Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs) to deaths investigated by verbal autopsy. Global Health Action 12(1):1680068. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F16549716.2019.1680068
D'Ambruoso L, Van Der Merwe, M, Wariri O, Byass P, Goosen G, Kahn K, Masinga S, Mokoena V, Spies B, Tollman S, Witter S, Twine R (2019). Rethinking collaboration: developing a learning platform to address under-5 mortality in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. Health Policy and Planning 34(6):418-429.
https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fheapol%2Fczz047
Hove J, D'Ambruoso L, Mabetha D, Van Der Merwe M, Byass P, Kahn K, Khosa S, Witter S, Twine R (2019). “Water is life”: developing community participation for clean water in rural South Africa. BMJ Global Health 4(3): e001377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001377
Byass P, Hussain-Alkhateeb L, D'Ambruoso L, Clark S, Davies J, Fottrell E, Bird J, Kabudula C, Tollman S, Kahn K, Schiöler, Petzold M (2019). An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model. BMC Medicine 17:102. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1333-6
Edem I, Dare A, Byass P, D’Ambruoso L, Leather A, Kahn K, Tollman S, Whitaker J, Davies J (2019). External injuries and avoidable deaths in Agincourt, South Africa. BMJ Open 9(6): e027576. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027576
2018
Thomas LM, D’Ambruoso L, Balabanova D (2018). Verbal autopsy in health policy and systems: a literature review. BMJ Global Health 3:e000639.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000639
Thomas LM, D’Ambruoso L, Balabanova D (2018). The use of verbal autopsy and social autopsy in humanitarian crises. BMJ Global Health 3:e000640.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000640
2017
Brooks C, D’Ambruoso L, Kazimierczak K, Ngobeni S, Twine R, Tollman S, Kahn K, Byass P (2017). Introducing visual participatory methods to develop local knowledge on HIV in rural South Africa. BMJ Global Health 2:e000231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000231
Wariri O, D’Ambruoso L, Twine R, Ngobeni S, Van Der Merew M, Spies B, Kahn K, Tollman S (2017). Initiating a participatory action research process in the Agincourt health and socio–demographic surveillance site. Journal of Global Health 010413. https://doi.org/10.7189%2Fjogh.07.010413
D'Ambruoso L, Boerma T, Byass P, Fottrell E, Herbst K, Källander K & Mullan Z (2017). The case for verbal autopsy in health systems strengthening. Lancet Global Health 5:e20-e21. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(16)30332-1
2016
D'Ambruoso L, Kahn K, Wagner R, Twine R, Spies B, Van Der Merwe M, Gomez-Olive X, Tollman S, Byass P (2016). Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality. Global Health Research and Policy 1,2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-016-0002-y
Hullur N, D’Ambruoso L, Edin K, Wagner RG, Ngobeni S, Kahn K, Tollman S, Byass P (2016). Community perspectives on HIV, violence and health surveillance in rural South Africa: a participatory pilot. Journal of Global Health 6:010406. https://doi.org/10.7189%2Fjogh.06.010406