Abigail De Villiers, MSc

Research Associate

Research theme: Combatting Infections of National Priority

Abigail studied BioMathematics (with a focus in Molecular Biology) at Stellenbosch University. She first joined SACEMA in 2019 through her Honours project on adaptive decision making algorithms for active Tuberculosis case-finding under the supervision of Dr. Florian Marx. She worked as a Research Assistant at SACEMA focusing on TB case-finding and as a coordinator between the SACEMA-DTTC TB Modeling partnership in 2020. In December 2021, Abigail obtained her Masters degree (cum laude) in Epidemiology. She is currently a Research Associate at SACEMA.

Recent publications

Impact of interventions for tuberculosis prevention and care in South Africa – a systematic review of mathematical modelling studies
Brown LR, van Schalkwyk C, de Villiers AK, Marx FM

South African Medical Journal

(2023)

https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2023.v113i3.16812
Spatially targeted digital chest radiography to reduce tuberculosis in high-burden settings: a study of adaptive decision making
de Villiers AK, Dye D, Yaesoubi R, Cohen T, Marx FM

Epidemics

(2022)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100540

Abigail De Villiers, MSc

Research Associate

Recent publications

Impact of interventions for tuberculosis prevention and care in South Africa – a systematic review of mathematical modelling studies

Spatially targeted digital chest radiography to reduce tuberculosis in high-burden settings: a study of adaptive decision making